On the edges of fragmentation -- Entrance into the soul: the benevolent doctor as a colonizing agent in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought it? -- The most dangerous girl in Mexico: medical rhetoric as social order in late 19th century Mexico and the United States -- A gift from God: religion and science in María Cristina Mena's short fiction -- Costumbrismo in a shadowed world: anxiety in Josefina Niggli's Step down, elder brother.
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