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Poetry Middle Eastern

Little Wet-Paint Girl

by (author) Ouanessa Younsi

translated by Rebecca L. Thompson

Publisher
Athabasca University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2022
Category
Middle Eastern, Women Authors, Family
Recommended Age
18
Recommended Grade
12
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781778290060
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $21.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771993739
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $21.99

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Born to a French-Canadian mother and Algerian father, Ouanessa Younsi is a bold and unique voice in modern Francophone poetry. In this intensely personal recitation on identity and ethnicity, Younsi takes the reader on a surreal odyssey through a liminal world of belonging and unbelonging, absence and presence, mind and body. Her visionary work, first published in French and translated here by Rebecca Thompson, is unsettling, riveting and guaranteed to leave readers contemplating the existential mysteries of “self.”

About the authors

Ouanessa Younsi is a poet, psychiatrist, and lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Université de Montréal. She is the author of three books of poetry in French, Prendre langue (2011), Emprunter aux oiseaux (2014), Soigner, aimer (2016), and Métissée (2018).

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Rebecca L. Thompson holds a PhD in literature, with a focus on translation studies and works as an adjunct professor at State University of New York at Fredonia. Her translation work has appeared in Metamorphoses and Modern Poetry in Translation.

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