La Castañeda Insane Asylum : narratives of pain in modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author.

Series:

Sustainable history monograph pilot.

Sustainable history monograph pilot

Standardized Title:

Castañeda. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)--History--20th century--Sources.

Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico).

Psychiatric hospital care--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century--Sources.

Psychiatric hospital care.

Mentally ill--Institutional care--Mexico--Mexico City.

Mentally ill.

Mentally ill--Mexico--Mexico City--Interviews.

Mentally ill--Institutional care.

History.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Genre:

History.

Interviews.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xviii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]

Summary:

"An 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. I La Castaneda General Insane Asylum, 1884

1930

ch. II Entryway: A Mental Health Routine

ch. III The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose

ch. IV Through My Narrative I Was Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves

ch. V Looking Insane

ch. VI The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castaneda

ch. VII Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction / Ileana Rodriguez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- Castañeda Insane Asylum

ISBN:

9780806167237

0806167238

OCLC:

1151807486