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Autore |
Rivera Garza Cristina <1964-> |
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Titolo |
La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost |
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2020 |
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Norman : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , [2020] |
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©[2020] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource.) |
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Collana |
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Sustainable history monograph pilot |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychiatric hospital care |
Mentally ill - Institutional care |
Mentally ill |
Mentally ill - Mexico - Mexico City |
Mentally ill - Institutional care - Mexico - Mexico City |
Psychiatric hospital care - Mexico - Mexico City - History - 20th century |
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Interviews |
History |
Mexico Mexico City |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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"-- |
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