Ourika by duchesse de Claire de Durfort Duras
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"Ourika" by Claire de Duras is a novel published in 1823. A young Senegalese girl is rescued from slavery and raised in Paris high society, educated and refined like any aristocratic French woman. But at twelve, she overhears a devastating conversation that shatters her innocence: what man would marry a Black woman? This realization awakens her to the racial barriers she never knew existed, triggering a profound psychological crisis that will shape
her tragic fate in post-Revolutionary France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828 |
|---|---|
| Title | Ourika |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourika |
| Credits | Produced by Daniel Fromont |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Race relations -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women, Black -- Fiction |
| Subject | Africans -- France -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 26820 |
| Release Date | Oct 7, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 418 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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