Ourika.

Author
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
French
Published/​Created
Paris : Chez l'Advocat, 1824.
Description
172 p. ; 20 cm.

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  • Ourika, based on fact, and influenced by Rousseau and Chateaubriand, is the complex story of a black African child raised in aristocratic circles in Revolutionary France. It is the first fully developed attempt to portray a black heroine in Europe and the first French novel with a black female narrator.
  • With this is bound her Edouard ... 1825.
OCLC
27305987
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