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An edition of Ourika (1824)

Ourika

the original French text

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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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Language
English
Pages
45

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Ourika: roman
2006, Bleu autour
in French
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Ourika
1998, University of Exeter Press
in French - Nouv. ed. rev. et augm., avec le texte corrigé de l'auteur.
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Ourika (Exeter French Texts)
January 1, 1998, University of Exeter Press
Paperback in French
Cover of: Ourika
Ourika
1998, University of Exeter Press
in French - Nouv. ed. rev. et augm., avec le texte corrigé de l'auteur.
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Ourika (University of Exeter Press - Exeter French Texts)
October 1, 1998, University of Exeter Press
Paperback in French - 2 Revised edition
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Ourika: an English translation
1994, Modern Language Association of America
in English
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Ourika: the original French text
1994, Modern Language Association of America
in English
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Ourika
1993, University of Exeter Press
in French
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Ourika
1993, University of Exeter Press
in French
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Ourika
1979, Des Femmes
in French - Éd. féministe de Claudine Herrmann.
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Ourika
1977, W. T. Taylor
in English
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Ourika: suivi de Édouard
1950, Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau
in French
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Ourika
1878, Librairie des bibliophiles
in French
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Ourika.
1826, Ladvocat
in French - 3. éd. --
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Ourika ...
1824, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
in English
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Ourika
1824, Chez Ladvocat
electronic resource in French
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Ourika.
1824, Librairie de Duncker et Humblot
in French

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvi).

Published in
New York
Series
Texts and translations., 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.7
Library of Congress
PQ2235.D65 O8 1994, PQ2235.D65O8 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 45 p. ;
Number of pages
45

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1099866M
Internet Archive
ourikaoriginalfr0000dura
ISBN 10
0873527798
LCCN
94024650
OCLC/WorldCat
31166434
Library Thing
295740
Goodreads
69961

Work Description

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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