Ourika

Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourika Release date is 2008-10-07

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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.)



France -- Fiction Race relations -- Fiction Women, Black -- Fiction Africans -- France -- Fiction

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