Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1950
Category :
ISBN :
Letters from a Leprosy Colony
Ernie Pyle
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Letters from a Leprosy Colony
American Leprosy Missions. Postwar Anti-Leprosy Program
Author : American Leprosy Missions. Postwar Anti-Leprosy Program
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Leprosy
ISBN :
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
Claire Manes
Author : Claire Manes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496800052
In 1924 when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family goodbye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy, now referred to as Hansen's disease, stigmatized and disfigured but did not kill. Those with leprosy were incarcerated in the federal hospital and isolated from family and community. Phones were unavailable, transportation was precarious, and fear was rampant. Edmond entered the hospital (as did his four other siblings), but he did not surrender to his fate. He fought with his pen and his limited energy to stay connected to his family and to improve living conditions for himself and other patients Claire Manes, Edmond's granddaughter, lived much of her life gripped by the silence surrounding her grandfather. When his letters were discovered, she became inspired to tell his story through her scholarship and his writing. Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family presents her grandfather's letters and her own studies of narrative and Carville during much of the twentieth century. The book becomes a testament to Edmond's determination to maintain autonomy and dignity in the land of the living dead. Letters and stories of the other four siblings further enhance the picture of life in Carville from 1919 to 1977.
How to Escape from a Leper Colony
Tiphanie Yanique
Author : Tiphanie Yanique
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555970532
An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.
In the Shadow of The Pali
Lisa Cindrich
Author : Lisa Cindrich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101176903
In this extraordinary first novel, Cindrich brings hope to horror, capturing a journey that teaches a lost girl who has leprosy more about love than she has ever known.
Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Famed author Robert Louis Stevenson produced this non-fictional work. He writes an open letter denouncing what he sees as an unfair treatment of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who lived and worked among the lepers in a colony on the island of Honolulu. Stevenson who knew Father Damien writes to Rev. H. B. Gage to offer a rebuttal of the charges levelled against Damien among them being "a coarse, dirty man, headstrong and bigoted."
The Colony
John Tayman
Author : John Tayman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : 074323300X
In the bestselling tradition of "In the Heart of the Sea" comes the untold history of America's only leper colony--which exists even today--and the extraordinary people forced to create a community under horrific circumstances. 30 photos.
Letters from the Land of Long Farewells
Wilma Halmasy
Author : Wilma Halmasy
Publisher : Sisters of St Francis of Neumann Communities
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Leprosy
ISBN : 9780615415703
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice
Pam Fessler
Author : Pam Fessler
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1631495046
The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shameful” disease. The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America’s most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated—often against their will and until their deaths. Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of the patients, nurses, doctors, and researchers at Carville who struggled for over a century to eradicate Hansen’s disease, the modern name for leprosy. Amid widespread public anxiety about foreign contamination and contagion, patients were deprived of basic rights—denied the right to vote, restricted from leaving Carville, and often forbidden from contact with their own parents or children. Neighbors fretted over their presence and newspapers warned of their dangerous condition, which was seen as a biblical “curse” rather than a medical diagnosis. Though shunned by their fellow Americans, patients surprisingly made Carville more a refuge than a prison. Many carved out meaningful lives, building a vibrant community and finding solace, brotherhood, and even love behind the barbed-wire fence that surrounded them. Among the memorable figures we meet in Fessler’s masterful narrative are John Early, a pioneering crusader for patients’ rights, and the unlucky Landry siblings—all five of whom eventually called Carville home—as well as a butcher from New York, a 19-year-old debutante from New Orleans, and a pharmacist from Texas who became the voice of Carville around the world. Though Jim Crow reigned in the South and racial animus prevailed elsewhere, Carville took in people of all faiths, colors, and backgrounds. Aided by their heroic caretakers, patients rallied to find a cure for Hansen’s disease and to fight the insidious stigma that surrounded it. Weaving together a wealth of archival material with original interviews as well as firsthand accounts from her own family, Fessler has created an enthralling account of a lost American history. In our new age of infectious disease, Carville’s Cure demonstrates the necessity of combating misinformation and stigma if we hope to control the spread of illness without demonizing victims and needlessly destroying lives.