A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux

Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60980-326-1
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try to describe and explain her life as if I were writing about someone else’s mother and a daughter who wasn’t me. Although I try to be as objective as possible, certain expressions, such as “If you ever have an accident …” will always strike a sensitive chord in me, while others remain totally abstract, for instance, “the denial of one’s own body and sexuality.” When I remember these expressions, I experience the same feeling of disillusion I had when I was sixteen. Fleetingly, I confuse the woman who influenced me most with an African mother pinning her daughter’s arms behind her back while the village midwife slices off the girl’s clitoris.

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