{"product_id":"ourika-an-english-translation-mla-texts-and-translations","title":"Ourika: An English Translation (MLA Texts and Translations)","description":"John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers.\nBased on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that suddenly makes her conscious of her race―and of the prejudice it arouses. From this point on, Ourika lives her life not as a French woman but as a black woman who feels \"cut off from the entire human race.\" As the Reign of Terror threatens her and her adoptive family, Ourika struggles with her unusual position as an educated African woman in eighteenth-century Europe.\n\nA best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal, and became the subject of four contemporary plays. The work represents a number of firsts: the first novel set in Europe to have a black heroine; the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist; and, as Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, \"the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0873527801\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0873527801.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Claire De Duras\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41445974310970,"sku":"DBV.0873527801.G","price":4.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0873527801-0.jpg?v=1780695952","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/ourika-an-english-translation-mla-texts-and-translations","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}