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

by Nancy Rose Hunt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822359650
• ISBN13: 9780822359654
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"