Evelyne Accad
Evelyne Accad (born October 6, 1943) is a Lebanese-born educator and writer living in the United States.[1]
Life
Accad is the daughter of a Swiss mother and a father of Lebanese and Egyptian descent. She was born in Beirut in 1943 and grew up in Lebanon[2] and came to the United States in the late 1960s. She was educated at the Beirut College for Women, Anderson College, Ball State University and Indiana University, receiving a PhD in comparative literature from the latter institution. Accad taught at Beirut University College in 1978 and 1984 and at Northwestern University in 1991, and is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1]
She published her first novel L’Excisée in 1982; it was translated into English as The Excised in 1989.[3] This novel deals with excision of women in both the physical and metaphorical sense.[4]
Although she has her own unique style, Accad was strongly influenced by the Egyptian-born French writer Andrée Chedid and the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi.[2]
Selected works
Fiction
- Coquelicot du massacre (1988)
- Blessures des Mots: Journal de Tunisie (1993); English version Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia (1996)[5]
Non-fiction
- Veil of shame: the role of women in the contemporary fiction of North Africa and the Arab world (1978); received the International Educator's Award
- Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East (1990)
- Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre: Fiction et Realite au Proche-Orient (1993); received the France-Lebanon Literary Award
- Voyages en cancer (2000); received the Prix Phenix de Literature; English version The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer (2001)[5]
References
- 1 2 ʻĀshūr, Raḍwá; Ghazoul, Ferial Jabouri; Reda-Mekdashi, Hasna, eds. (2008). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. p. 314. ISBN 9774161467.
- 1 2 Toman, Cheryl (2007). "Introduction". In Toman, Cheryl. On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies. pp. 3–5. ISBN 1883479533.
- ↑ "L'Excisée by Evelyne Accad". LiTgloss.
- ↑ Yared, Nazik Saba (2007). "Evelyne Accad on Women Excised". In Toman, Cheryl. On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies. pp. 307–317. ISBN 1883479533.
- 1 2 Europa Publications, ed. (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. p. 4. ISBN 1857431790.