{"title":"Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux: casting light on class migrant experience","authors":"Lyn Thomas","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214678","url":null,"abstract":"The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire de fille and to the letters I wrote at a similar period and phase of my life, as a first-generation student at St Hugh's College, Oxford in the early 70s. At the time, like Annie Duchesne, 1 I had no political or sociological understanding of my experience; reading Ernaux 20 years later in the early 90s was a literary epiphany, illuminating my trajectory from a working-class culture of origin to a middle-class life and career. My engagement with Ernaux over 30 years has also involved a continuous correspondence with the writer, which I draw on here, illustrating the blurred boundaries between intimacy and research discussed by Fraser and Puwar (2008) . This mise en scène of my reading self is placed within the context of the wider communities of class migrant readers of Ernaux: the lay readers studied by myself and Isabelle Charpentier, Ernaux specialists in academe, and the younger writers discussed by Aurélie Adler in this special issue.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"16 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poïétique et politique du littéraire : Annie Ernaux, une écriture « au-dessous de la littérature » ?","authors":"Elise Hugueny-Léger","doi":"10.1177/09571558231216933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231216933","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Dans Une Femme (1987), Annie Ernaux affirmait se situer « au-dessous de la littérature » : dans quelle mesure ce positionnement, maintenu par l’autrice au fil des décennies, est-il compatible avec sa consécration ? Cet article envisage la publication des Années (2008) comme un tournant qui a été suivi de nombreux textes dialogiques et collaboratifs s’éloignant de formats littéraires consacrés et donnant à voir le processus de création de l’œuvre, autrement dit, sa poïétique. Le dévoilement de l’acte d’écrire contribue à instaurer une véritable généalogie de l’œuvre, voire à l’ancrer dans une dimension mythique qui n’est pourtant jamais séparée de préoccupations socio-politiques. Par un jeu d’échos entre publications littéraires et déclarations paratextuelles, cet article met à jour les ramifications profondes de la conception de l’écriture et du positionnement d’Ernaux vis-à-vis de l’idée de littérature.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining postcolonial identities: The Blancs-Matignon of Guadeloupe","authors":"M. Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.1177/09571558241231180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241231180","url":null,"abstract":"Mariette Monpierre's and Michel Reinette’s 2022 documentary, Les Derniers Blancs Matignon de Guadeloupe, and Estelle-Sarah Bulle’s 2018 novel, Là, où les chien aboient par la queue emblematize the complexities involved in reimagining postcolonial identities in Guadeloupe, especially that of the Blancs-Matignon. They are a mostly White, endogamous, and isolated group who have had a discreet existence in the thickly forested inland region of Grands-Fonds du Moule since the late 1600s. Through an analysis of the documentary and parts of the novel, the article explores historical, cultural, and linguistic convergences between the Blancs-Matignon and the majority Black and mixed-race population of Guadeloupe. The identity politics of weaving the narratives of the Blancs-Matignon into the matrix of Guadeloupe's contemporary society will also be examined.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« Désirer désobéir » : politique et stylistique d’un vivre autrement chez Annie Ernaux","authors":"Carole Bourne-Taylor","doi":"10.1177/09571558231216932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231216932","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Chez Annie Ernaux, l’alliage « désirer désobéir » (que j’emprunte à Georges Didi-Huberman) cristallise un engagement motivé par l’indignation et porté par une révolte créatrice – contre les indignités, contre le « désengagement de l’État », contre un déclinisme mortifère. L’opposition d’Ernaux au pouvoir dépasse la simple protestation ; comme chez Camus, qui demeure une de ses inspirations, une énergie du « pour » anime cette posture politique vouée à la recherche de la vérité, à l’exercice de la liberté et à la lutte pour la dignité. Ses prises de position contre toutes les formes d’injustice (politique migratoire française, traitement des Gilets Jaunes par les autorités françaises, réforme des retraites de 2023, etc.) confirment son rôle de protagoniste capitale d’une « repolitisation » anti-capital. Si Jean-Luc Mélenchon symbolise le contre-pouvoir, Ernaux, elle, incarne la puissance du désir : donc toujours à imaginer. Politique et éthique se fondent en une stylistique (qui englobe la justesse expressive) porteuse d’une autre vie.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"80 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poïétique et politique du littéraire : Annie Ernaux, une écriture « au-dessous de la littérature » ?","authors":"Elise Hugueny-Léger","doi":"10.1177/09571558231216933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231216933","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Dans Une Femme (1987), Annie Ernaux affirmait se situer « au-dessous de la littérature » : dans quelle mesure ce positionnement, maintenu par l’autrice au fil des décennies, est-il compatible avec sa consécration ? Cet article envisage la publication des Années (2008) comme un tournant qui a été suivi de nombreux textes dialogiques et collaboratifs s’éloignant de formats littéraires consacrés et donnant à voir le processus de création de l’œuvre, autrement dit, sa poïétique. Le dévoilement de l’acte d’écrire contribue à instaurer une véritable généalogie de l’œuvre, voire à l’ancrer dans une dimension mythique qui n’est pourtant jamais séparée de préoccupations socio-politiques. Par un jeu d’échos entre publications littéraires et déclarations paratextuelles, cet article met à jour les ramifications profondes de la conception de l’écriture et du positionnement d’Ernaux vis-à-vis de l’idée de littérature.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"155 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139840107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« Désirer désobéir » : politique et stylistique d’un vivre autrement chez Annie Ernaux","authors":"Carole Bourne-Taylor","doi":"10.1177/09571558231216932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231216932","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Chez Annie Ernaux, l’alliage « désirer désobéir » (que j’emprunte à Georges Didi-Huberman) cristallise un engagement motivé par l’indignation et porté par une révolte créatrice – contre les indignités, contre le « désengagement de l’État », contre un déclinisme mortifère. L’opposition d’Ernaux au pouvoir dépasse la simple protestation ; comme chez Camus, qui demeure une de ses inspirations, une énergie du « pour » anime cette posture politique vouée à la recherche de la vérité, à l’exercice de la liberté et à la lutte pour la dignité. Ses prises de position contre toutes les formes d’injustice (politique migratoire française, traitement des Gilets Jaunes par les autorités françaises, réforme des retraites de 2023, etc.) confirment son rôle de protagoniste capitale d’une « repolitisation » anti-capital. Si Jean-Luc Mélenchon symbolise le contre-pouvoir, Ernaux, elle, incarne la puissance du désir : donc toujours à imaginer. Politique et éthique se fondent en une stylistique (qui englobe la justesse expressive) porteuse d’une autre vie.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"700 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A commitment that ruffles feathers: the attacks against Annie Ernaux's political stances","authors":"Gisèle Sapiro","doi":"10.1177/09571558231219974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231219974","url":null,"abstract":"This article was written in response to the attacks on Annie Ernaux following the announcement by the Swedish Academy of its decision to award her the Nobel Prize in Literature on 6 October 2022. In particular, it discusses the accusation of anti-Zionism, more or less explicitly conflated with antisemitism. Through the analysis of texts signed by Ernaux, the article demonstrates that this accusation is a baseless attempt to discredit the Nobel Prize laureate in public opinion. The article also calls into question other accusations made against the writer during the programme ‘Répliques’ by Alain Finkielkraut, on 26 November 2022, on the France Culture radio station.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139840461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annie Ernaux : « engager » la littérature, essai de positionnement théorique","authors":"Maryline Heck","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214394","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé La volonté de faire une littérature qui soit, en quelque manière, politique est constamment réaffirmée tout au long du parcours d’écrivaine d’Annie Ernaux. En puisant surtout dans ses écrits réflexifs et déclarations lors d’entretiens, on s’attache à proposer un essai de « situation théorique » des discours méta-poétiques de l’autrice touchant à cette question du politique, afin de voir quelles théorisations de l’engagement ils sous-tendent, ou auxquelles ils puisent, et d’en dégager les éventuelles ambivalences ou apories. L’autrice, comme la critique universitaire, a mis l’accent à raison sur l’influence de ses lectures sociologiques et particulièrement bourdieusiennes. On voudrait montrer ici dans quelle mesure « l’engagement » de la littérature tel qu’Ernaux le conçoit semble devoir aussi aux théorisations sartriennes, dont Ernaux ne se revendique pas, mais dont elle paraît retrouver certains des gestes et des conceptions. Il s’agirait ainsi de compliquer un peu l’approche du politique chez Ernaux en interrogeant certains de ses soubassements et impensés.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"172 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A commitment that ruffles feathers: the attacks against Annie Ernaux's political stances","authors":"Gisèle Sapiro","doi":"10.1177/09571558231219974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231219974","url":null,"abstract":"This article was written in response to the attacks on Annie Ernaux following the announcement by the Swedish Academy of its decision to award her the Nobel Prize in Literature on 6 October 2022. In particular, it discusses the accusation of anti-Zionism, more or less explicitly conflated with antisemitism. Through the analysis of texts signed by Ernaux, the article demonstrates that this accusation is a baseless attempt to discredit the Nobel Prize laureate in public opinion. The article also calls into question other accusations made against the writer during the programme ‘Répliques’ by Alain Finkielkraut, on 26 November 2022, on the France Culture radio station.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"140 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux: casting light on class migrant experience","authors":"Lyn Thomas","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214678","url":null,"abstract":"The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire de fille and to the letters I wrote at a similar period and phase of my life, as a first-generation student at St Hugh's College, Oxford in the early 70s. At the time, like Annie Duchesne, 1 I had no political or sociological understanding of my experience; reading Ernaux 20 years later in the early 90s was a literary epiphany, illuminating my trajectory from a working-class culture of origin to a middle-class life and career. My engagement with Ernaux over 30 years has also involved a continuous correspondence with the writer, which I draw on here, illustrating the blurred boundaries between intimacy and research discussed by Fraser and Puwar (2008) . This mise en scène of my reading self is placed within the context of the wider communities of class migrant readers of Ernaux: the lay readers studied by myself and Isabelle Charpentier, Ernaux specialists in academe, and the younger writers discussed by Aurélie Adler in this special issue.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}