Title:
Ourika : an English translation / Claire de Duras ; translated and with a foreword by John Fowles ; introduction by Joan DeJean and Margaret Waller.
Author:
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828.
Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
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Publication Information:
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1994.
Call Number:
PQ2235 .D65 O813 1994
Abstract:
In the 18th Century, an African girl is rescued from slavery and raised in an aristocratic family in France. One day she overhears nasty comments on her skin color thus becoming conscious for the first time of her race. This turns her life upside down, until she meets a doctor who convinces her to accept herself as she is. The narrator is the girl.
ISBN:
9780873527804
Series:
Texts and translations. Translations
Texts and translations. Translations.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 47 p. ; 22 cm.
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Uniform Title:
Ourika. English
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