Joyce Mansour, la voix féminine dans le surréalisme

Abstract

Joyce Mansour, Anglo-egyptian poet writing in French, embodied a new image of surrealist
woman. Considered by Breton as «our woman poet », her work follows the quest of an identity shared between
different languages and cultures. Recognition of members of the Surrealist group will double in her sensuous
consciousness of wanting to express a feminine otherness that she claims, against an assimilation to
clichés. With pre-feminist tones she sings, or shouts, the frenzy of desire, the female body, free but inhabited by
anxiety. I will show how a certain view of the critical false the interpretation of her work precisely because she
is the result of a feminine sensibility