Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins
Siobhan McIlvanney
Abstract
This critical study focusing exclusively on Annie Ernaux's writing trajectory provides an analysis of her individual texts. Following a broadly feminist hermeneutic, it engages in a series of 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, the study seeks to introduce new readers to Ernaux's works, while engaging on less-familiar terrain those already familiar with her writing.
Keywords: Annie Ernaux, feminism, contradictions, close readings, feminist hermeneutic
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853235378 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846312571 |
