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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1007/s10912-020-09666-y BibTeX citation key: Venkatesan2021 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Autobiography, Medicine, Themes and motives Creators: Murali, Venkatesan Collection: Journal of Medical Humanities |
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The conspicuous absence of personal articulations of miscarriage in mainstream discourses attests to the stigmatised nature of the experience. Notably, there exists a growing body of infertility comics which foreground the authors’ lived realities of miscarriage. In a close reading of select graphic memoirs such as Jenell Johnson’s Present/Perfect, Paula Knight’s The Facts of Life, Phoebe Potts’ Good Eggs, and Diane Noomin’s Baby Talk, this article examines how the authors use comics to foreground their predicament. In so doing, the essay argues that these narratives attempt to accord a cultural legitimacy to the hitherto silenced experiential realities of miscarriage.
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