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 Linguistics • Chilean literature • Representation of illness • Death • Relations between medicine and literature • Empirical medicine • Fairy tales • Literature therapy • Hispanic-American literatures • Indigenous medical practice • Lexicography • Childhood • Stigma • HIV-positive novel • Illnesses • Silvina Ocampo • Peruvian literature • Metaphor • Reino de Nueva Granada • Capitalism • Biography • Spanish and Italian publishing production • Ritual theatre • Fetish • Colombian literature • Juan del Valle y Caviedes • Illness • Sanatorium • María Luisa Ocampo • Fantastic literature • American plants • Tomás González • Neofantastic • Life • Cognitive • Ancestral • Tobacco • “El Sur” • Transcendental performance • Story • Body • Traditional medicine • Globalization • Diego Muzzio • Argentine literature • Cuban fiction • AIDS • Ideology • Mexican exvotos • Popol Vuh • Scientific medicine • La maraca embrujada por jibaná • Metonymy • Doll • Charles Saffray • Fantastic rhetoric • Medicine • Narrative • Costa Rican literature • Translations • Jorge Luis Borges • Lexicology • Scientific discourse • Doctor and patient • Sixteenth century • Traditional indigenous medicine • Chile • Hispanic American theatre • Total institution • Narrative medicine • Mapuche • Ramiro Sanchiz • HIV epidemic • Literature • Transgression • Yellow Fever • Women and art in Mexico • Monologues • Weird • Francisco de Quevedo • Cuban theatre • Travel diaries • Illness and gender • Amazonian cultures • Moral treatises • Medicine and literature • Homophobia • Fantastic
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-939-9 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-939-9 | Published Sept. 9, 2025 | Language es
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