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Based on a True Story, Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that makes her suddenly 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 "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
A 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 John Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind." An inspiration for Fowles's acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ourika will astonish and haunt modern readers
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monografia Rebiun37703143 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37703143 m o d cr bn||||||abp cr bn||||||ada 100519s1994 nyu ob 000 1 eng d 94024650 1100879137 1150983703 1288490646 9781603292276 e-book) 1603292276 0873527798 paper) 9780873527798 paper) OCLCE eng pn OCLCE OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ UKAHL OCLCQ INARC OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ dlr e-fr--- f------ 843/.7 20 Duras, Claire de Durfort duchesse de 1777-1828.) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcR9BFY79Chb43qkPqCwC Ourika the original French text Claire de Duras ; edited by Joan DeJean ; introduction by Joan DeJean and Margaret Waller New York Modern Language Association of America 1994 New York New York Modern Language Association of America 1 online resource (xxviii, 45 pages) 1 online resource (xxviii, 45 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Texts and translations. Texts 3 Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi) Use copy. Restrictions unspecified star. MiAaHDL Based on a True Story, Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that makes her suddenly 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 "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 A 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 John Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind." An inspiration for Fowles's acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ourika will astonish and haunt modern readers Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Women, Black- Fiction Africans- France- Fiction Race relations- Fiction Noires- France- Romans, nouvelles, etc Africains- France- Romans, nouvelles, etc Femmes noires- Romans, nouvelles, etc Africains- France- Romans, nouvelles, etc Relations raciales- Romans, nouvelles, etc Africans. Race relations. Women, Black. Schwarze Frau. Ethnische Beziehungen. France- Fiction France- Relations raciales- 19e siècle- Romans, nouvelles, etc France. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP Frankreich. Senegal. Fiction. DeJean, Joan E. Print version Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828. Ourika. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1994 (DLC) 94024650 (OCoLC)31166434 Texts and translations. Texts 3