Annie Ernaux: Shame and the Politics of Memory
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- 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
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What does it mean to describe one’s drive to write as a lifelong struggle against loneliness and forgetfulness? Annie Ernaux, whose “courage and clinical acuity” in writing earned her the Nobel prize in 2022, takes the matter of her own working-class milieu as the stuff of literature: her factory worker parents, their lives on either side of WWII, her personal experience of illegal abortion, the ungovernable vicissitudes of sexual desire, illicit affairs, marriage, and divorce. Setting herself apart from earlier writers with comparable drives yet very different class affiliations—Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf—Ernaux’s perspicacious voice proceeds from within a specific gendered and classed experience, one that necessarily complicates the literary first-person and consequently makes, for Ernaux, writing a profoundly political activity. How can we read Ernaux’s singular body of work with and apart from the writers who inspired it—Proust, Woolf, Roland Barthes—and as itself an inspiration to the burgeoning genre of contemporary autofiction?
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Brooklyn
68 Jay St
Btwn Water & Front Streets
Brooklyn, New York 11201 Brooklyn
68 Jay St
Btwn Water & Front Streets
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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