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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822359464
• ISBN13: 9780822359463
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"