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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Samuels Searcher
Author: The Searcher
Author: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana
Author: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
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Category : Avoyelles Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
L'Heritage
Author: Historic Shreveport-Bossier
Author: Marguerite R. PlummerPublisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Prudhomme Family Cookbook
Author: Paul PrudhommePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062188119
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Super-bestselling Chef Paul Prudhomme and his 11 brothers and sisters remember—and cook—the greatest native cooking in the history of America, garnered from their early years in the deep south of Louisiana. The Prudhomme Family Cookbook brings the old days of Cajun cooking right into your home.
Strange True Stories of Louisiana
Author: George W. CablePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734019370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3310
Book Description
Invention of Hysteria
Author: Georges Didi-HubermanPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262541807
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria. In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere. As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical "type"—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot's "Tuesday Lectures." Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot's favorite "cases," that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine's virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.