Intimacies of Sound and Skin at Carville

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

SOUTHERN CULTURES Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/scu.2023.0001

Adria L. Imada

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Abstract

Abstract:At the national leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, diverse groups of people diagnosed with leprosy or Hansen's disease (HD) forged an unexpected disability culture of music, touch, and recreation. In the 1970s, HD patients from the small Kalaupapa, Molokai, settlement in Hawai'i arrived at the vast Carville facility seeking advanced medical treatment. They interacted with other people medically sequestered in the US South, including African Americans, Latinos, whites, and recent immigrants. Some residents had benefited from a 1940s sulfone antibiotic cure, while others had a range of physical disabilities. These older adults also shared the experience of stigma, social exclusion, and separation from kin, although leprosy incarceration policies had been far harsher and enacted much earlier in Hawai'i than at Carville. Memoirs and snapshots produced by Hawai'i residents reveal how social encounters in the South influenced their life choices and institutional demands at a critical moment of transition and mobility for disabled people in the late twentieth century.

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卡维尔的声音和皮肤的亲密关系

摘要:在路易斯安那州卡维尔的国家麻风病中心，被诊断为麻风病或汉森病(HD)的不同群体打造了一种意想不到的残疾文化，包括音乐、触摸和娱乐。20世纪70年代，来自夏威夷莫洛凯岛小卡劳帕帕定居点的HD患者来到卡维尔的大型设施寻求先进的医疗治疗。他们与其他因医学原因被隔离在美国南部的人互动，包括非洲裔美国人、拉丁裔美国人、白人和新移民。一些居民从20世纪40年代的砜抗生素治疗中受益，而其他人则有一系列身体残疾。这些老年人也经历了耻辱、社会排斥和与亲人分离的经历，尽管夏威夷的麻风病监禁政策要比卡维尔严厉得多，制定的时间也早得多。夏威夷居民的回忆录和快照揭示了在20世纪后期，在过渡和残疾人流动的关键时刻，南方的社会遭遇如何影响了他们的生活选择和制度要求。

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期刊介绍： In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.