Abstract
This paper examines the motif of abortion in the works of Annie Ernaux and the ways in which the corporeal language of her narrators leads us to an empathetic understanding of abortion as a legitimate reproductive experience within the Symbolic Order of language. I argue that as her narrators seek out the procedure of abortion that is “unintelligible” within the parameters of their world, they are subject to an epistemological injustice that is corrected through the reader’s interpretation of their experience. Abortion allows Ernaux’s narrators to regain the self-understanding that pregnancy takes away.
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