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 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 49315 |
| Release Date | Jun 29, 2015 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 699 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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