De functie van de moederfiguur in het werk van Annie Ernaux, Édouard Louis en Didier Eribon: Een studie naar de invloed van klassenmigratie op de moeder-kindrelatie
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2026-02-25
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Since Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022, interest in autosociobiographical texts has increased significantly. Within this genre, alongside Ernaux, Louis and Eribon hold a central position. Their works deal with the experience of class migration, tracing their trajectories from working-class backgrounds into the left-wing intellectual milieu of Paris. Notably, all three authors have devoted a separate book to their mother. This raises the question of what function the mother figure fulfills within autosociobiographical narratives of class migrants.
This study addresses that question through a close-reading analysis of Une Femme (Ernaux, 1987), Combats et métamorphoses d’une femme (Louis, 2021) and Vie, vieillesse et mort d’une femme du peuple (Eribon, 2023). The analysis draws primarily on a Bourdieusian theoretical framework, which are organized under the thematic categories of ‘care relationship’, ‘socialization’, and ‘affective relationship’. By systematically examining the mother figure in these three works, the study identifies the various roles she has within the process of class migration and clarifies the impact of social mobility on the mother-child relationship.
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