Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine

Herausgeber: Novillo-Corvalán, Patricia

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern Iberian and Latin American literature. Investigating how writers reflect on the personal, social, and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are represented. Addressing subjects including bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, medical technologies, Darwinian evolution, indigenous herbal medicine, the pathography, and the 'illness as metaphor' trope, this collection engages with cultural studies, gender studies, disability studies, comparative literature, and the medical humanities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781138823907
• ISBN-10: 1138823902
• Artikelnr.: 42459989

Autorenporträt

Patricia Novillo-Corvalán is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Medical Humanities Perspectives on Iberian and Latin
American Literature Patricia Novillo-Corvalán 2. Explorers of the Human
Brain: The Neurological Insights of Borges and Ramón y Cajal Patricia
Novillo-Corvalán 3. The Anti-Diagnostics of Júlio Dinis and the Medical
Hubris of Egas Moniz Susanne Black 4. Oculists and other Modern
Visionaries: Epistemological Myopia in José Fernández Bremón's Un crimen
científico Rocío Rødtjer 5. Emilia Pardo Bazán and the Diagnosis of
Cultural Diseases Anne W. Gilfoil 6. Darwinism and Identity: Evolution,
Science, and Medicine in Aluísio Azevedo's O mulato Elizabeth A. Marchant
7. Simon Bolívar's Illness in Gabriel García Márquez's The General in His
Labyrinth Olivia Vázquez Medina 8. Healing the Family in Laura Esquivel's
Like Water for Chocolate Debra D. Andrist 9. Health and/as Sickness in the
Fiction of Julio Cortázar Dominic Moran 10. Asthma and its Symbolism: The
Respiratory Aesthetics of José Lezama Lima William Rowlandson 11. Illness
and Utopia in Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps and Severo Sarduy's Beach
Birds Guillermina De Ferrari 12. Calligraphies of Illness in Contemporary
Catalan Culture: The Power of Metaphor Montserrat Lunati