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Garrett, Victoria Lynn – Hispania, 2010
This article reads Roberto Arlt's short story "El jorobadito" as a direct and critical response to hygienic discourse in the first decades of the twentieth century in Argentina. Hygienic discourse served as a basis for an exclusionary social model that profoundly affected politics and the organization of the social body. It sought to…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Fiction, Social Discrimination, Models