Hipócrates y sus artificios
Enfermedad, medicina y narración en las literaturas y culturas hispánicas e hispanoamericanas
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Margherita Cannavacciuolo - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Maria Rita Consolaro - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Alice Favaro - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This book explores the relationship between Hispanic and Hispanic American literatures, cultures, medicine, and illness. The collected essays that comprise this volume offer diverse perspectives and approaches, that enhance the topicality and relevance of the explored themes. On the one hand, the works draw attention to artistic expressions that use fantastic rhetoric, seeking to deepen the sense of the unknown by overcoming the boundaries of reality. Indeed, this aesthetic quest is inevitably intertwined with the sphere of illness and its potential healing. The perimeter of the human experience seems to fall into a doubtful and dim atmosphere. On the other hand, we also know that literature depicts the world in a realistic or mimetic manner. This approach has been considered in a way that engages with the fissures produced by the altered state of the subject. Moreover, an important part of this study is dedicated to non-hegemonic medical knowledge and practices belonging to indigenous and traditional cultures that firmly challenge Eurocentrism imposition that is apparently indisputable. Overall, we can conclude that this book poses a series of original suggestions that reveal the urgency of preserving investigating the way we interpret the untold, the unintelligible, and the unacceptable.
Keywords Biography • Childhood • Sanatorium • Lexicography • Hispanic American theatre • Capitalism • Charles Saffray • Silvina Ocampo • Francisco de Quevedo • Literature • Ideology • Metaphor • Homophobia • Fantastic literature • La maraca embrujada por jibaná • Total institution • Chilean literature • Fetish • Traditional indigenous medicine • Transcendental performance • Chile • Jorge Luis Borges • Argentine literature • Women and art in Mexico • Monologues • Ramiro Sanchiz • Indigenous medical practice • Narrative • Juan del Valle y Caviedes • Yellow Fever • Illness and gender • Stigma • Medicine • Transgression • Illness • Popol Vuh • Doll • “El Sur” • Body • Globalization • Relations between medicine and literature • Scientific medicine • Neofantastic • Fantastic • Amazonian cultures • Costa Rican literature • Cognitive • Metonymy • Moral treatises • Translations • Weird • Scientific discourse • Mexican exvotos • Traditional medicine • Literature therapy • Cuban theatre • Fairy tales • Fantastic rhetoric • AIDS • Illnesses • Representation of illness • Diego Muzzio • Narrative medicine • HIV-positive novel • Tomás González • Ancestral • Death • Empirical medicine • Ritual theatre • Medicine and literature • Mapuche • Life • Peruvian literature • María Luisa Ocampo • Sixteenth century • Spanish and Italian publishing production • Reino de Nueva Granada • HIV epidemic • Cuban fiction • Colombian literature • American plants • Doctor and patient • Hispanic-American literatures • Travel diaries • Linguistics • Tobacco • Lexicology • Story
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