Communication as Cure

Fleeing oncoming enemy forces in Southern France in the summer of 1940, Leonora Carrington passed into Spain and suffered a mental breakdown. Written in the summer of 1943 in an abandoned embassy building in Mexico City, the essay Down Below recalls this treatment in unnerving detail, anticipating l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hannah McIntyre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2021-03-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/5488