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Mardi Gras celebration
12016-03-08T08:33:30-08:00Marianna Mapes6544b040bd84b408df1fddd4a53375d6aaa4e41e818010plain2016-04-18T09:53:26-07:00Marianna Mapes6544b040bd84b408df1fddd4a53375d6aaa4e41eThe hospital’s annual Mardi Gras celebration afforded a circumscribed opportunity for direct challenges to the notion that individuals with leprosy were fated to live out their days in clinical confinement, hence civic disengagement. Inherently normative, diagnostic, and probing, the clinical space appears wholly oppressive at first blush. But the yearly pageant transformed Carville into a stage for ostensibly innocent experiments in identity; one patient, Johnny Harmon, recalls dressing up as Mae West for the celebration one year, thereby playing with accepted notions of gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy (Gaudet 27). The counterpoint posed by architecture became all the more striking as Carville very slowly opened itself up to the world, e.g., allowing patients to a brief leave each year “when their disease is quiescent,” or transferring them to home care from the clinical setting (“Crusade in Carville”).
