Little Wet-Paint Girl
112 pages, 5 x 7
Paperback
Release Date:31 Oct 2022
ISBN:9781778290060
Little Wet-Paint Girl
By Ouanessa Younsi; Translated by Rebecca L. Thompson
Athabasca University Press
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.”
Ouanessa Younsi is a poet, psychiatrist and lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Université de Montréal.
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.
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.
