Lecture
Shame in Annie Ernaux's autosociobiographical narratives
Distancing, (self-)objectification and 'unashamedness'
In her lecture, Sarah Carlotta Hechler will focus on selected narratives by Annie Ernaux in order to illustrate Ernaux's distanced mediation of shame, which has an 'untameable' dimension, by changing the perspective between the narrated and the narrating self. While in La honte (1997) the eponymous affect functions as an indicator of social inequality, in L'Événement (2000) and Mémoire de fille (2016) it is also considered in the context of gendered power relations.
All interested parties are cordially invited to attend.
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Speaker
Sarah Carlotta Hechler holds a doctorate in general and comparative literature on Annie Ernaux's autosociobiographical forms of writing from the Free University of Berlin and is associated with the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin -
The lecture will take place as part of Dr. Cora Rok's seminar: "Shame and first-person narration: from Rousseau to Ernaux " cora.rok@uni-siegen.de
