Ourika

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Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603292292
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ourika written by and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers. Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that suddenly makes her 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 who feels "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 Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ourika. [Translated into English.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ourika; a Tale, from the French. ... written by Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de) and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Louise R.B. de Durfort (duchesse de Duras.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Ourika [by C.L.R.B. de Durfort]. From the French written by Claire Louise R.B. de Durfort (duchesse de Duras.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book Ourika written by Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Louise R.B. de Durfort (duchesse de Duras.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book Edward, tr. from the Fr. of the author of Ourika written by Claire Louise R.B. de Durfort (duchesse de Duras.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire de Durfort duchesse de Duras
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Ourika written by Claire de Durfort duchesse de Duras and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This French novella narrates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who, after being rescued from slavery, is raised by a noble French family during the French Revolution. She remains unaware of her difference because of being raised in a privileged household until she overhears a conversation that makes her conscious of her race and of the discrimination it faces. After learning about her roots, Ourika lives not as a French woman but as a black person. The story then presents the struggles she faces with her newly discovered identity as an educated African lady in eighteenth-century Europe. Claire de Duras wrote this best-seller twenty-five years before the abolition of the slave trade in France. This period was a time when not a lot of women published their work, so Duras published Ourika anonymously. It marks an important event in European literature as it is the first novel set in Europe to have a black female protagonist. Despite being a short story, this work addresses the themes of race, nationality, interracial love.

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 140936125X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The High Atlas Rough Guides Snapshot Morocco (includes Djebel Toubkal, the Ourika Valley, Oukaïmeden, Telouet and the Tizi n’Test) written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot to the High Atlas is the ultimate travel guide to this intriguing part of Morocco. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the Ourika Valley to the Tin Mal Mosque and skiing at Oukaïmeden to trekking up Djebel Toubkal. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Morocco, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Morocco, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, accommodation and shopping. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to Morocco. Full coverage: The Ourika Valley, Setti Fatma, Oukaïmeden, the Djebel Toubkal Massif, Moulay Brahim, Asni, Imlil, Tachddirt, Tizi Oussem, Tizi n'Test, Ouirgane, Amizmiz, Ijoukak, Agoundis Valley, Ougdemt Valley, Idni, Tin Mal Mosque, Goundafi Kasbahs, Tizi n'Tichka, Telout, Kasbah Mtouggi, Western High Atlas, Tichka Plateau. (Equivalent printed page extent 83 pages).

Author : Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward. Translated from the French of the Author of Ourika, (the Duchess de Duras.). written by Claire de Durfort Duras (duchesse de) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354333
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vénus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.