Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
By Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
This is the 1st learn to envision the illustration of sickness, incapacity, and cultural pathologies in sleek and modern Iberian and Latin American literature. cutting edge and interdisciplinary, the gathering situates drugs as a major and mostly neglected discourse in those literatures, whereas additionally contemplating the social, political, spiritual, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning ailment. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have mirrored at the own and cultural results of sickness, it increases valuable questions about how clinical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the artwork of therapeutic often are represented. Essays pay specific consciousness to the ways that those interdisciplinary dialogues chart new instructions within the research of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, and rising disciplines resembling the scientific humanities. Addressing a variety of subject matters and topics together with bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, scientific applied sciences, Darwinian evolution, indigenous natural medication, the emerging style of the pathography, and the ‘illness as metaphor’ trope, the gathering engages with the discourses of cultural reviews, gender reviews, incapacity stories, comparative literature, and the clinical humanities. This publication enriches and stimulates scholarship in those parts by way of exhibiting how a lot we nonetheless need to achieve from interdisciplinary experiences operating on the intersections among the arts and the sciences.
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