Letters from a Leprosy Colony
Author | : Ernie Pyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ernie Pyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Leprosy Missions. Postwar Anti-Leprosy Program |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Leprosy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Claire Manes |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-04-10 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Tiphanie Yanique |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Lisa Cindrich |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2002-06-10 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2021-04-25 |
Genre | : 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."
Author | : John Tayman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Wilma Halmasy |
Publisher | : Sisters of St Francis of Neumann Communities |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Leprosy |
ISBN | : 9780615415703 |
Author | : Pam Fessler |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
Publisher | : Chicken House |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2017-05-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1911077473 |
Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?