- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853235378
- eISBN:
- 9781846312571
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235378.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the issue of sexuality in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides and Ce qu'ils disent ou rien. It suggests that the vacillating sense of Denise in Les Armoires vides is aggravated by ...
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This chapter examines the issue of sexuality in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides and Ce qu'ils disent ou rien. It suggests that the vacillating sense of Denise in Les Armoires vides is aggravated by her increasingly cross-cultural locus and uncertainty as to the precise components of her future, while the isolation of Anne in Ce qu'ils disent ou rien foregrounds the class, generational, and gender bias that infuses linguistic exchanges. The chapter argues that both narrators straddle a cross-cultural position and consequently embrace multilingualism.Less
This chapter examines the issue of sexuality in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides and Ce qu'ils disent ou rien. It suggests that the vacillating sense of Denise in Les Armoires vides is aggravated by her increasingly cross-cultural locus and uncertainty as to the precise components of her future, while the isolation of Anne in Ce qu'ils disent ou rien foregrounds the class, generational, and gender bias that infuses linguistic exchanges. The chapter argues that both narrators straddle a cross-cultural position and consequently embrace multilingualism.
