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Carville : remembering leprosy in America
- Title
- Carville : remembering leprosy in America / Marcia Gaudet.
- Author
- Gaudet, Marcia G.
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.
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- Description
- xv, 221 p. : ill.; 18 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- ITQ (Carville) 05-4497
- ISBN
- 157806693X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004008952
- OCLC
- 55000650
- Author
- Gaudet, Marcia G.
- Title
- Carville : remembering leprosy in America / Marcia Gaudet.
- Imprint
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- ITQ (Carville) 05-4497