Chapter One - On the Edges of Fragmentation
Chapter Two - Entrance into the Soul: The Benevolent Doctor as a
Colonizing Agent in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have
Thought It? (1872)
Chapter Three – “The Most Dangerous Girl in Mexico”: Medical
Rhetoric as Social Order in late 19th Century Mexico and the United
States
Chapter Four - A Gift from God: Religion and Science in María
Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction
Chapter Five - Costumbrismo in a Shadowed World: Anxiety in
Josefina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother
Dora Alicia Ramírez is associate professor in the English department at Boise State University.
Dora Ramirez examines the writings of Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Teresa
Urrea, Maria Cristina Mena, and Josefina Niggli through the
critical lens of contemporary medical environmental theories of the
body and of the soul. She explodes the modernist concerns with the
body and the soul by deploying an eclectic medical humanities and
Chicana feminist analysis to highlight the contributions of these
stars in the Chicanx literary heavens. Undoubtedly students and
scholars of American literature and specifically Native American,
Chicanx or Latinx literatures will find a treasure trove of
observations and insights in Medical Imagery and Fragmentation:
Modernism, Scientific Discourse, and the Mexican, Indigenous Body,
1870-1940s
*Norma Cantu, Trinity University*
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