Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Med Humanit. 2021 Dec;42(4):763-775. doi: 10.1007/s10912-020-09666-y. Epub 2020 Oct 9.
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.
主流话语中明显缺乏个人对流产的表达，证明了这种经历的污名化性质。值得注意的是，越来越多的不孕漫画将作者的流产经历摆在了重要位置。通过对詹内尔·约翰逊的《现在/完美》、宝拉·奈特的《生活的事实》、菲比·波茨的《好蛋》和黛安·诺明的《宝贝对话》等精选漫画回忆录的细读，本文探讨了作者如何使用漫画来突出她们的困境。通过这样做，本文认为这些叙述试图为迄今为止被沉默的流产经历赋予文化合法性。
