La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

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dc.contributor.authorRivera Garza, Cristina
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Oklahoma Pressen
dc.contributor.translatorKanost, Lauraen
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-11T17:30:53Z
dc.date.available2020-05-11T17:30:53Z
dc.date.issued2020-09
dc.description.abstractLa Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first 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. It links life within the asylum’s walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution’s armed phase and then endured under succeeding modernizing regimes.
dc.description.abstractAuthor Cristina Rivera Garza brings the history of La Castañeda asylum to life as inmates, doctors, relatives, and others engage in dialogues on insanity. They discuss faith, sex, poverty, loss, resentment, envy, love, and politics. Doctors translated what they heard into the emerging language of psychiatry, while inmates conveyed their personal experiences and private histories through expressions of mental suffering. The language of pain—physical and spiritual, mild to escruciating—allowed patients to detail the sources and consequences of their misfortune. Available now for the first time in English, this edition contains updated sources and features a note by the translator, Laura Kanost.
dc.description.abstractCristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of six novels, three collections of short stories, five collections of poetry, and three nonfiction books. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into multiple languages. She is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
dc.description.abstractLaura Kanost is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University. She is the coauthor of Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness: Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics, and the Mind.
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding Provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot.en_US
dc.format.extentxviii, 236 pagesen
dc.identifier.doi10.38118/9780806168531
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/324382
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectLatin Americaen_US
dc.subjectMexicoen_US
dc.subjectMexican Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectModern 20th Century Historyen_US
dc.subjectMental Healthen_US
dc.subjectPublic Healthen_US
dc.subjectPsychiatryen_US
dc.titleLa Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexicoen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
ou.groupOtheren_US

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