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Carville [electronic resource] : remembering leprosy in America / Marcia Gaudet.

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Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy open to rev...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gaudet, Marcia G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.) > History.
National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.)
Leprosy > Louisiana > Carville > History.
Leprosy.
Louisiana > Carville.
History.
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.

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