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.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.)--History.
Leprosy--History.--Louisiana--Carville
Electronic books.
RA644.L3 / G38 2004eb
362.196/998/00976344
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.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.)--History.
Leprosy--History.--Louisiana--Carville
Electronic books.
RA644.L3 / G38 2004eb
362.196/998/00976344