I am interested in stories, characters, etc. involving hispanic folk healing.
This is for a made-for-TV movie which the Communication Dept. here at Univ. of
Tex-Pan American will produce this summer. I am writing the screenplay for
this our 6th such project. It is a fiction movie, but I want to correctly and
interestingly tell about a young man who has "the power" to be a folk healer
but who has turned his back on such things in order to go to medical school and
be a "real doctor." Ultimately my hero will discover that the science of
medicine can not cure his girl friend and that her only hope is a folk healing
(which he will have to do once he schools himself on the folk arts.
I have already read Trotter & Chavira's CURANDERISMO, Glazer's FLOUR FROM
ANOTHER SACK and Anaya's BLESS ME, ULTIMA, and I've seen MILARGO BEAN FIELD
WAR. What I need is material not covered in any of the above.
Thanks.
Jack R. Stanley, Chair
Communication Dept.
U.T.P.A.
JRS4284@PANAM
JRS4284@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU