Mémoire de fille, ou comment écrire (avec la voix de) « cette fille ». Issue 5 (20th October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schwerdtner, Karin
• Is Part Of: Contemporary French and francophone studies. Volume 22:Issue 5(2018)
• Page Start: 597
• Page End: 604
• Publication Date: 2018-10-20
• Subjects: (Life) Writing -- archived letters -- giving "voice"; French literature -- Periodicals; France -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Culture -- Study and teaching -- France -- Periodicals; 306.094405
• DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2018.1609184
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-9292

Abstract

Abstract: Focusing on Annie Ernaux's Mémoire de fille, and drawing insight from both a recent interview with the author and from historian Arlette Farge's work on the use of archives, this paper considers briefly how Ernaux uses her archived letters to give voice to her "former self" and to a generation of girls whose public behavior was inevitably subject to evaluation and judgment.