dc.description.abstract | As a professor of literature and a writer, Annie Ernaux has an impact on the society, especially by her ways of focusing on women. Stories which came from daily life or even her personal experiences impressed the readers. Including girls, women, family and school, Ernaux’s stories rebuilt and described the experiences that most of the women may have been through. However, what she wrote had been criticized by the modern society. This is the reason why we have to find out the way that Ernaux trys to tell the public about the women. In the societ, mostly controlled by male, we should not only demand the issue of gender equality legally, but also ethically. Although Ernaux doesn’t lay emphasis on feminism, her works are all imbued with women. She thinks that we should “transform events into writing, and let writing become an event”. Therefore, the works of Annie Ernaux have a lot to do with feminism.
According to the theory of Pierre Bourdieux, adepting at language during Ernaux’s studies is the key point of going upward in the social mobility. After gone through the gap between social classes, writing seems to become her way of expression. Nevertheless, it also point out that Ernaux should be engaged more in the gender equality. Whether she makes atonement for the lack after the social mobility by writing; or, her main idea of writing has changed from social mobility to life of feminisim. Writing means a lot to her, it is her voice.
Here we try to analyse four works of Annie Ernaux. They are L’Occupation, L’Evenement, La Honte et Les armoires vides.
First, we elaborate on the relation between the body and the mind. As we know, the body and the mind affect each other. We analyse the issue of materilized women by the descriptions of women’s appearance in the works. Except the appearance, we reagard the physical changes as an important issue in this part, including menstruel period, pregnancy and abortion which are exclusive of men. Therefore, women are affected mentally by these physical changes. Then, during the process of self-inquiring, the experiences and memories from childhood have a crucial effect on a person. As the way that family and school exercise influence on the works of Ernaux or even her characters, we have to distinguish the different roles between these two institutions. When being confronted with the role, Ernaux focus on it of a female: daughter, mother and teacher. In her works, the leading roles are always female, but in different identities which is inseparable from self-inquiring and self-identity. In conclusion, what Ernaux wrote has been reused by the readers, because writing is not only her voice but also the voice of women. Furthermore, analysing the relation between writing and memory raises wide concern about the dark situation of women. Thus, we try to pay close attention to females in differents ways and various aspects.
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