Ourika by duchesse de Claire de Durfort Duras

"Ourika" by Claire de Duras is a novel published in 1823. A young enslaved girl is rescued from the slave trade and raised in aristocratic Parisian society. Educated and cultured, she lives unaware of racial barriers until a devastating conversation forces her to confront how the world sees her. As she falls in love with someone beyond her reach, she must navigate a society that cannot see past her skin color. This groundbreaking work depicts the first complex black woman narrator in French literature. (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 Dagny and Marc D'Hooghe (Images made available by the Google Books Project)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
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
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EBook-No. 49315
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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