Health Humanities and María Luisa Puga’s Diary of Pain

Ilana Luna (ASU) and Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell) will co-translate and critically introduce the work Diary of Pain by Mexican author, María Luisa Puga. The work is an eloquent chronicle of the author’s descent into the debilitating pain of rheumatoid arthritis and was first published the same year as her death, 2004. Though the chronicle is of critical importance and was recently republished at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) in their Vindictas series, it has clear correspondences with the anglophone fields of health humanities/ pain studies, and our translation and scholarly edition will frame the book in dialogue with those fields.