Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Landry, Edmond, 1891-1932.
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| ISBN: | 9781617037771
161703777X
9781621039426
1621039420
9781617037764
1617037761
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| Notes: | Includes biographical information on Edmond Landry and correspondence, mostly his.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In 1924, when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye 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. This book 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Manes, Claire, 1943- Out of the shadow of leprosy. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013] 9781617037764
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