01131nas a2200181   4500000000100000008004100001653001200042653003100054653002300085653002100108653001800129653002000147100001700167245008300184856004000267490000600307520063600313       2018                            d10aleprosy10aLeprosy policies in Norway10aNineteenth century10aNarrative theory10aSmall stories10aPatient letters1 aFederhofer M00a“I Face a Dark Future”: Patient Letters from the Leprosy Archives, Bergen.  uhttp://ejlw.eu/article/view/232/4710 v73 a<p>This article focuses on letters sent by leprosy patients or their family members applying for place at a leprosy hospital. Written between 1871 and 1911, the letters now form part of the Leprosy Archives in Bergen, and have not been presented, contextualized and analysed before. The article aims to illuminate both the sufferers’ experiences of leprosy and the ways in which they recount those experiences in their letters. The concept of “small stories” (Michael Bamberg and Alexandra Georgakopoulou) serves as an entry point to access the narrative techniques in these autobiographical and biographical documents.</p>