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Ourika
Duras, Madame De; Durfort, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de
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Description for Ourika
Paperback. 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. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Exeter French Texts
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859895736
SKU
V9780859895736
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Ref
99-2
About Duras, Madame De; Durfort, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de
Roger Little was Professor of French (1776) at Trinity College Dublin until his retirement in 1998. He has an outstanding record of scholarship in French and francophone writing, with particular interests in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. His academic work has mainly concentrated on modern French poetry and the representation of Blacks in Francographic literature. He has edited several volumes ... Read more
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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). ... Read more