Joyce Mansour

Joyce Mansour (born 1928, deceased 1986) was a twentieth century French Surrealist poet. Egyptian by ethnicity, she was born in Bowden, England. Mansour identified with the Surrealist movement and gave to it a feminine voice that challenged the movement's dominant masculine imagery. Her sexually provoctative and often violent images, evident in collections of poems such as "Dechirures" (or "Tears"), define her as one of the more experimental Surrealists. Her poems are translated in Greek by the surrealist poet Hector Cacnavatos.Responding to claims that surrealism is a style of art, she once said 'It is not the technique of painting that is surrealist; it is the painter and the painters vision of the world.' Joyce married Samir Mansour in 1949.

References

* Marie-Laure Missir's "Joyce Mansour: Une Etrange Demoiselle". Paris: Place, 2005.