Carville remembering leprosy in America /
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
c2004.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10432100 |
Table of Contents:
- Carville, leprosy, and real people: an introduction to a culture apart
- "An exile in my own country": the unspeakable trauma of entering Carville
- "Through the hole in the fence": personal narratives of absconding from Carville
- Telling it slant: personal narratives, tall tales, and the reality of leprosy
- The world downside up: Mardi Gras at Carville
- "Under the pecans": history and memory in the graveyard at Carville
- Remembering leprosy: postmemory and the Carville legacy.