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La Castañeda Insane Asylum

Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

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October 4, 2023 | History
An edition of La Castañeda (2010)

La Castañeda Insane Asylum

Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

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"La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum—a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the asylum’s walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution’s armed phase and then endured under succeeding modernizing regimes.

Author Cristina Rivera Garza brings the history of La Castañeda asylum to life as inmates, doctors, relatives, and others engage in dialogues on insanity. They discuss faith, sex, poverty, loss, resentment, envy, love, and politics. Doctors translated what they heard into the emerging language of psychiatry, while inmates conveyed their personal experiences and private histories through expressions of mental suffering. The language of pain—physical and spiritual, mild to excruciating—allowed patients to detail the sources and consequences of their misfortune.

Available now for the first time in English, this edition contains updated sources and features a note by the translator, Laura Kanost.
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Cover of: Castañeda
Castañeda
2022, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
in Spanish
Cover of: Castañeda
Castañeda
2022, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
in Spanish
Cover of: La Castañeda Insane Asylum
Cover of: La Castañeda Insane Asylum
La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
Dec 22, 2020, OUP, University of Oklahoma Press
paperback
Cover of: La Castañeda
La Castañeda: narrativas dolientes desde el Manicomio General, México, 1910-1930
2010, Tusquets
in Spanish - 1. ed.

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Source title: La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

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Library of Congress
RC451.M6R5813 2020

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paperback
Number of pages
258

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OL33311603M
ISBN 10
0806167238
ISBN 13
9780806167237

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