Name: La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
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Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
ISBN: 9780806167237

portada La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cristina Rivera Garza

Publisher

University Of Oklahoma Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

258

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780806167237

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico "

La 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. Author 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 excruciating—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.

Cristina Rivera Garza

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Cristina Rivera Garza. Author. Translator. Critic. Her most recent books are Autobiography of Cotton (Literatura Random House, 2020) and Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country (The Feminist Press, 2020, translated by Sarah Booker, finalist for the NBCC Award). In 2020, she received the MacArthur Fellowship. Distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

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