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 Silvina Ocampo • Metonymy • Globalization • Cuban fiction • Amazonian cultures • Total institution • Biography • Spanish and Italian publishing production • Translations • Empirical medicine • Reino de Nueva Granada • Juan del Valle y Caviedes • Scientific discourse • Homophobia • Narrative • Fantastic literature • Diego Muzzio • Relations between medicine and literature • Medicine • Monologues • Illness and gender • La maraca embrujada por jibaná • Scientific medicine • HIV-positive novel • Linguistics • Indigenous medical practice • Ancestral • AIDS • Chile • “El Sur” • Fairy tales • Metaphor • Traditional indigenous medicine • Ritual theatre • Literature • Yellow Fever • Popol Vuh • Cuban theatre • Transgression • Illnesses • Representation of illness • Ideology • Mexican exvotos • Childhood • Fetish • Costa Rican literature • Charles Saffray • María Luisa Ocampo • Literature therapy • Stigma • American plants • Hispanic American theatre • Francisco de Quevedo • Body • Transcendental performance • Sixteenth century • Moral treatises • Ramiro Sanchiz • Argentine literature • Colombian literature • Narrative medicine • Lexicology • Hispanic-American literatures • Illness • HIV epidemic • Capitalism • Cognitive • Women and art in Mexico • Traditional medicine • Lexicography • Doll • Story • Neofantastic • Death • Medicine and literature • Sanatorium • Mapuche • Fantastic • Peruvian literature • Jorge Luis Borges • Life • Tomás González • Fantastic rhetoric • Weird • Travel diaries • Tobacco • Chilean literature • Doctor and patient
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