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