Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji

by Jacqueline Leckie and Leckie

Book Overview

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution--St Giles Psychiatric Hospital--established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji's indigenous, migrant, and colonial communities and examines how individuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824888464
• ISBN13: 9780824888466
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"