Table of Contents:
  • Significant events in Duras's life, the slave trade, and French history / Deborah Jenson and Christopher L. Miller
  • French Revolution in Ourika / Mary Jane Cowles
  • Restoration looks back at the Revolution / Marshall C. Olds
  • Religion under Revolution in Ourika / Christine De Vinne
  • Mirror insurrections : Haitian and French revolutions in Ourika / Deborah Jenson
  • Duras, biography, and slavery / Christopher L. Miller
  • Representations of the real-life Ourika / Thérèse de Raedt
  • Black faces, white voices in women's writings from the late 1820s / Doris Y. Kadish
  • Ourika and women's literary tradition in France / Chantal Bertrand-Jennings
  • Telling stories of melancholia : René and Ourika / Kari Weil
  • Ourika and the reproduction of social forms : Duras and Bourdieu / Dorothy Kelly
  • Ourika's Mal / Mireille Rosello
  • Literary frames of Ourika, then and now / Adrianna M. Paliyenko
  • Ourika as an inversion of the Pygmalion myth / Damon DiMauro
  • Duras and Hugo : an intertextual dialogue / Kathryn M. Grossman
  • Exile according to Ourika and Julia / Dawn Fulton
  • Ourika in the history classroom / Sue Peabody
  • Ourika in the French civilization class / Scott M. Powers
  • Ourika in an honors college : from intermediate French to comparative literature seminar / Jocelyn Van Tuyl
  • Ourika in a fourth-semester French language and culture course / David R. Ellison
  • He said, she said : Ourika in a gender studies course / Carolyn Fay
  • Ourika in the humanities survey / Jen Hill
  • Teachings of Ourika / Barbara Woshinsky.