Gaudet, Marcia G.

Carville remembering leprosy in America / [electronic resource] : Marcia Gaudet. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004. - xv, 221 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.)--History.


Leprosy--History.--Louisiana--Carville


Electronic books.

RA644.L3 / G38 2004eb

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