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Medical imagery and fragmentation : modernism, scientific discourse, and the Mexican/indigenous body, 1870-1940s

Title
Medical imagery and fragmentation : modernism, scientific discourse, and the Mexican/indigenous body, 1870-1940s / Dora Alicia Ramírez.
Author
Ramírez, Dora Alicia
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Description
v, 105 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism
  • Medicine and the humanities
  • Medicine in literature
  • Body and soul in literature
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • American literature > Mexican American authors
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
On the edges of fragmentation -- Entrance into the soul: the benevolent doctor as a colonizing agent in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought it? -- The most dangerous girl in Mexico: medical rhetoric as social order in late 19th century Mexico and the United States -- A gift from God: religion and science in María Cristina Mena's short fiction -- Costumbrismo in a shadowed world: anxiety in Josefina Niggli's Step down, elder brother.
Call Number
JFE 17-8726
ISBN
  • 9780739198285
  • 0739198289
LCCN
2017017238
OCLC
979567423
Author
Ramírez, Dora Alicia, author.
Title
Medical imagery and fragmentation : modernism, scientific discourse, and the Mexican/indigenous body, 1870-1940s / Dora Alicia Ramírez.
Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-8726
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