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In this article, I examine the autofictional narrative Whore by Quebec writer Nelly Arcan, demonstrating how the psychoanalytic confession of the "whore" narrator (whom we are tempted to confuse with the author) inserts itself into a project of women's genealogy. Following a symbolic death, the narrator gives birth to her story and succeeds in placing herself within the tradition of écriture au féminin. She wishes to remember the women of past generations who have been subjected to male desire and silenced; however, her very act of appropriating language in the name of women is ambiguous in that she herself is often complicit in their objectification and degradation.
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