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- Title
Impersonal Belongings: Annie Ernaux's Poetics of Chiffonnage.
- Authors
Farchi, Gai
- Abstract
Contemporary French author Annie Ernaux makes salvaging, recycling, and defying obsolescence into a materialist poetics. Ernaux aligns her textual collages with a late-capitalist incarnation of the Parisian ragpicker. The overlap of the two main tropes in Ernaux's oeuvre, the axis of reminiscence (embodied here mainly in the works The Years and A Girl's Story) and the axis of everyday experience in late capitalistic Paris and its suburbs (Exteriors, Things Seen), assemble into a poetics of chiffonnage. In both axes, residues of the everyday are recycled into writing, an effort that reframes the tradition of ragpicking from its context in nineteenth-century Paris into a discourse of waste and recycling.
- Subjects
ERNAUX, Annie, 1940-; POETICS; RAGPICKERS; WASTE recycling; OBSOLESCENCE; 20TH century (Literary period); 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism, 2023, Vol 52, Issue 2, p21
- ISSN
0049-2426
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/sub.2023.a907147