A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo - Couverture rigide

Hunt, Nancy Rose

 
9780822359463: A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
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ISBN 10 : 0822359464 ISBN 13 : 9780822359463
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states-one "nervous," one biopolitical-the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo's famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation. Hunt's history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing, wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction, urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822359464
ISBN 13 
9780822359463
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780822359654: A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

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ISBN 10 :  0822359650 ISBN 13 :  9780822359654
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2016
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