On the edges of fragmentation -- Entrance into the soul: the benevolent doctor as a colonizing agent in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought it? -- The most dangerous girl in Mexico: medical rhetoric as social order in late 19th century Mexico and the United States -- A gift from God: religion and science in María Cristina Mena's short fiction -- Costumbrismo in a shadowed world: anxiety in Josefina Niggli's Step down, elder brother
Summary
This book examines how industrialism led to the negation of racialized bodies, knowledges, and spaces. It analyzes the concept of the "individual" as a medical, economic, political, and theoretical term, focusing on how medical knowledge, doctors, surgery, experimentation, healing, and the soul are treated in Mexican American modernist literature
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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