# Ourika

By Claire de Durfort Duras, duchesse de.

"Ourika" by Claire de Duras is a novel published in 1823. A young enslaved girl is rescued from the slave trade and raised in aristocratic Parisian society. Educated and cultured, she lives unaware of racial barriers until a devastating conversation forces her to confront how the world sees her. As she falls in love with someone beyond her reach, she must navigate a society that cannot see past her skin color. This groundbreaking work depicts the first complex black woman narrator in French literature. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: France -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Women, Black -- Fiction; Africans -- France -- Fiction

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