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Carville: remembering leprosy in America

Marcia G. Gaudet
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword by James Carville (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • 1. Carville, Leprosy, and Real People: An Introduction to a Culture Apart (page 3)
  • 2. "An Exile in My Own Country": The Unspeakable Trauma of Entering Carville (page 25)
  • 3. "Through the Hole in the Fence": Personal Narratives of Absconding from Carville (page 61)
  • 4. Telling it Slant: Personal Narratives, Tall Tales, and the Reality of Leprosy (page 88)
  • 5. The World Downside Up: Mardi Gras at Carville (page 116)
  • 6. "Under the Pecans": History and Memory in the Graveyard at Carville (page 147)
  • 7. Remembering Leprosy: Postmemory and the Carville Legacy (page 167)
  • Appendix A: Carville Death Records on Cemetery Marker (page 184)
  • Appendix B: Quotation from Plaque at Entrance to National Hansen's Disease Museum at Carville (page 189)
  • Notes (page 191)
  • Sources Cited and Consulted (page 199)
  • Index (page 213)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JSH 72.1 (Feb. 2006): 207-208 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27649038
WF 64.3/4 (Summer - Fall 2005): 344-346 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25474765
JAF 122.483 (Winter 2009): 111-12 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_american_folklore/v122/122.483.goertzen.html
BHM 80.1 (Spring 2006): 189-190 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/summary/v080/80.1frantz.html
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Published: c2004
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
ISBN(s)
  • 9781604736038 (ebook)
  • 9781578066933 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Folklore
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