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

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 a...

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Main Author: Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828
Other Authors: Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1994.
Series:Texts and translations. Translations
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