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.

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