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Ourika: An English Translation (Texts & Translations)

by Claire De Duras

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Based on a true story, Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution. A best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal. It represents a number of firsts: the first novel set in Europe to have a black heroine, the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist, and, as John Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind." An inspiration for Fowles's acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ourika will astonish and haunt modern readers.
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ISBN:
9780873527804
Translator:
Fowles, John
Dejean, Joan:
Duras, Claire de Durfort
Translator:
Fowles, John
Author:
de Duras, Claire
Author:
Duras, Claire de Durfort
Waller, Margaret:
Introduction
Publisher:
Modern Language Association of America
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
France
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Africans
Subject:
Women, black
Subject:
Africans -- France -- Fiction.
Subject:
Race relations -- Fiction.
Subject:
France Fiction.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1994
Series:
Texts & Translations
Series Volume:
186026
Publication Date:
19950131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
80
Dimensions:
8.50x5.68x.21 in. .24 lbs.
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