The Poet of the House of the Living
The memory of leprosy in the literature of Lino Villachá (1933-1994)
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https://doi.org/10.5935/2177-6644.20230014Abstract
Between the years 1946 and 1994, the poet Lino Villachá was an intern in a leprosarium on the Campo Grande/MS, the current hospital-farm São Julião. In these years and inside the asylum-colony, Villachá lived with the isolation practices and various prophylaxes to fight leprosy throughout the second half of the 20th century, where he painted pictures with his poetry, formulating a testimonial account of the conditions of abandonment and misery of those afflicted by the disease. Here we take his work as an analytical basis and a factor of the transformation of the “other” as the author of his own history.
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