A Narrator-Oroonoko-Imoinda Power Triangle?

Both Alana's and Kris's posts make very interesting points about the "commodification of women"--especially in light of our discussion last class about female authorship. I wonder what you think about the fact that it is Behn, a royalist and a Tory anda woman writer in a man's literary world, who creates the characters of Oroonoko as well as Imoinda?

A lot of research has been done on Behn's narrator's relationship to Oroonoko, and some has been done on her relationship to Imoinda. In general, she seems to use the conventions of amatory fiction and traditional romance to identify with Oroonoko's nobility, though this is not without its tensions. Critics are often interested in the "likeness" and the "difference" between the narrator and her chief subject, a black royal man who has become a slave and yet is "naturally above it." Yet, the narrator is also using Oroonoko to make narrative, specifically narrative from a "female pen" (40). Similarly, the narrator places herself in an ambiguous position vis-a-vis Imoinda--with much less "idenfitication" than in Oroonoko's case. Imoinda seems repeatedly, as Kris mentions, "killed off"--first by Oroonoko's grandfather, then by Oroonoko, and ultimately, by Behn. How can we read this in terms of the narrator's power, her agency? Thoughts?