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The Subjectivity of the Colonial Subject from Olympe de Gouges to Mme de Duras
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2007
- pp. 29-43
- 10.1353/esp.2007.0071
- Article
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Abstract
Olympe de Gouge's L'Esclavage des noirs and Madame de Duras's Ourika address the question of subjectivity and the representation of black women under colonialization. De Gouge's protagonists express subjectivity by questioning slavery, while Ourika does so by seeking an impossible place for herself within French aristocratic society. In both cases, the problem of subjectivity revolves around the fate of a black woman's body.
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