viewed inherently in Black skin at the time is seen also in the reception of the novel, with Stendhal stating he found that “for a Négresse, the child was pretty” and Mme de Boigne saying Ourika “was as beautiful as her ebony skin permitted”. Melancholia Exile Confession Passing (racial identity) Tragedy Romanticism Gender equality See also The French Lieutenant's Woman References Bibliography Chilcoat, Michelle. "Confinement, the Family Institution, and the Case of Claire de Duras’ Ourika". Vol. 38, No. 3. (Fall 1998), 6–16. Dimauro, Damon. "Ourika, or Galatea Reverts to Stone". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. (Spr–Sum 2000). 187. Kadish, Doris Y.; Massardier-Kenney,Françoise et al., Translating slavery: gender and race in French women's writing, 1783–1823, Kent, Kent State University Press, 1994. Kadish, Doris Y., Ourika’s Three Versions: A Comparison, Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women’s Writing, 1783–1823, Éd. Françoise Massardier-Kenney, Préf. Albrecht Neubert, Gregory M. Shreve, Kent, Kent State UP, 1994, xiv, p. 217-28. Koh, Adeline "The uses of racial melancholia in colonial education: Reading Ourika and Saleh: A Prince of Malaya as cautionary tales " Journal of Postcolonial Writing Volume 48, Issue 4, 2012http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449855.2011.616341 O'Connell, David. "Ourika: Black Face, White Mask". The French Review. Special Issue. No. 6, Studies on the French Novel (Spring 1974), 47–56. de Raedt, Thérèse. “Representations of the Real-Life Ourika.” In Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika, MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature. (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009) Rouillard, Linda Marie. "The Black Galatea: Claire de Duras’ Ourika". Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3 & 4. (Spring–Summer 2004), 207–22. Warburton, Eileen. "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down: Ourika, Cinderella, and The French Lieutenant's Woman". Twentieth Century Literature. Vol. 42, No. 1, John Fowles Issue (Spring 1996), 165–186. Weil, Kari. "Romantic exile and the melancholia of identification". differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Vol. 7, No. 2, (Summer 1995). 111–27. External links Ourika, audio version 1823 French novels Novels about slavery Novels set in Paris Works published anonymously