La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Sustainable history monograph pilot | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©[2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780806168531
Uniform titles:
  • Castañeda. English
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Contents:
Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.
Summary: "An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.

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"An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.

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