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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476830803321

Autore

Rivera Garza Cristina <1964->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2020

Norman : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , [2020]

©[2020]

ISBN

0-8061-6723-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Collana

Sustainable history monograph pilot

Disciplina

362.2/1097253

Soggetti

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

Sources

Interviews

History

Mexico Mexico City

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--