Abstract
Claire de Duras’s Ourika (1823) is the moving story of a talented, lovely girl taken from Senegal and raised by an aristocratic French family. Forced to confront the harsh realities of racism at the age of fifteen, Ourika quickly descends into an emotional turmoil analogous to the mal du siècle that was common among romantic heroes in early nineteenth-century French literature. This article argues that the eponymous heroine’s racial identity crisis can be understood using Jacques Lacan’s concepts of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real.
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