Ourika
By (author) Madame de Duras Edited by Roger Little
Paperback (Published)
(October 1998)
ISBN: 9780859895736
5.83 x 8.27 inches
Price: $30.00
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Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris in 1823. This is a corrected and updated reprint of the 1998 second edition of this text.
Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris in 1823. It is now seen as a novel of exceptional psychological penetration and intercultural interest, anticipating Fanon in several ways. Race, class and the role of women in society are key issues it raises. Ourika is acknowledged by John Fowles to have inspired his novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman. This is a corrected and updated reprint of the 1998 second edition of this text, first published by University of Exeter Press in 1993 in the series Exeter French Texts/Textes litteraires. It is one of the most consistently successful volumes in the series, frequently used as a teaching text on university and other courses.
- By (author) Madame de Duras
- Edited by Roger Little
Roger Little was Professor of French at Trinity College Dublin until his retirement in 1998. He is the author of Between Totem and Taboo: Black man, white woman in franographic literature (UEP, 2001), and has edited several volumes of Textes littéraires for University of Exeter Press, including Histoire de Louis Anniaba (2000), Contes américains (1997) and Empsaël et Zoraïde (1995). He is also general editor of the seris “Autrement Mêmes”, published in Paris.
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