Joyce Mansour The Tuberose Baby Girl

This foundational volume presents the first comprehensive English-language excavation of Joyce's life and work. Beyond mere biography, it is a genealogical hermeneutics of the imaginary that maps the terrain of a poet whose writing became an ontological refusal. Joyce, André Breton's "Tuberose Baby Girl" , transfigured her Egyptian-Jewish lineage and subsequent political exile from Cairo into a radical poetic autonomy. Her language, forged in the crucible of loss and desire, is the grammar ...