Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins

Siobhán McIlvanney

Annie Ernaux

The Return to Origins

In this first critical study in English to focus exclusively on Annie Ernaux’s writing trajectory, Siobhán McIlvanney provides a stimulating and challenging analysis of Ernaux’s individual texts. Following a broadly feminist hermeneutic, this study engages in a series of provocative close readings of Ernaux’s works in a move to highlight the contradictions and nuances in her writing, and to demonstrate the intellectual intricacies of her literary project. By so doing, it seeks to introduce new readers to Ernaux’s works, while engaging on less familiar terrain those already familiar with her writing.

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The Return to Origins

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

List of Abbreviations
pp vii-vii

Dedication
pp viii-viii

Introduction: Con/textualising the Corpus
pp 1-16

1 - The Early Years: Classifying Sexuality in Les Armoires vides and Ce qu'ils disent ou rien
pp 17-48

2 - The Adult Woman: Female Behaviour Paradigms in La Femme gelée and Passion simple
pp 49-86

3 - Writing the Auto/biographical Legacies of La Place and Une femme
pp 87-116

4 - Self/representation through the M/other in the Diaries of ‘Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit’, Journal du dehors and La Vie extérieure
pp 117-152

5 - The Return to Origins: La Honte and L'Evénement
pp 153-176

Notes
pp 177-220

Bibliography
pp 221-232

Index
pp 233-240

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