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From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her. After seeing too many of her cousins die under the blows of their husbands, Hayate promises herself to do everything she can to avoid the same fate. Her hope lies in a drastic move to Tunisia - hailed to be the most democratic and inclusive country in the Arab world. Yet what she finds when she arrives is a starkly different reality.
Following Hayate's journals as a feminist scholar,
Wounding Words offers a thought-provoking and intelligently written account of feminism as it exist across the world, asking how women everywhere can live day-to-day by its values.
About the author
Evelyne Accad was born in Beirut in 1943 and grew up in Lebanon.
She moved to the United States in the early 1960s where she received her PhD in comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington.
As well as an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, Accad is also a songwriter, composer, and professor. She has taught at a number of universities, including Beirut University College and the University of Illinois, and remains Professor Emeritus of comparative French and Arabic literature, and African and feminist studies.
Translated from French by
Cynthia T. Hahn.
Cynthia T. Hahn, is a Professor of French at Lake Forest College, Illinois, where she has been teaching French language, literature, and culture courses, including creative writing and translation, since 1990.
Summary
From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her.
After seeing too many of her cousins die under the blows of their husbands, Hayate promises herself to do everything she can to avoid the same fate. Her hope lies in a drastic move to Tunisia - hailed to be the most democratic and inclusive country in the Arab world. Yet what she finds when she arrives is a starkly different reality.
Following Hayate's journals as a feminist scholar, Wounding Words offers a thought-provoking and intelligently written account of feminism as it exist across the world, asking how women everywhere can live day-to-day by its values.
Foreword
From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her.
