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Author:

Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828.

Title:

Ourika : an English translation / Claire de Duras ; translated and with a foreword by John Fowles ; introduction by Joan DeJean and Margaret Waller.

Publisher:

Modern Language Association of America,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

xxxiii, 47 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Women, Black--France.--Fiction.
Africans--France.--Fiction.
Race relations.--Fiction.
Noires--France--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Africains--France--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
France.--Fiction.
France--Romans, nouvelles, etc.--19e siècle--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Biographical fiction.

Other Authors:

Fowles, John, 1926-

Other Titles:

Ourika. English

Summary:

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.

Series:

Texts and translations ; Translations ;

ISBN:

9780873527804 (pbk. : recycled paper)
0873527801 (pbk. : recycled paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31172804

LCCN:

94036092

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)