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A Nervous State
Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
Taschenbuch von Nancy Rose Hunt
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Registers of Violence 27

2. Maria N'koi 61

3. Emergency Time 95

4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135

5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167

6. Motion 207

Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237

Notes 255

Bibliography 309

Index 343
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 372
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822359654
ISBN-10: 0822359650
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hunt, Nancy Rose
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Nancy Rose Hunt
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2016
Gewicht: 0,538 kg
preigu-id: 104836319
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Registers of Violence 27

2. Maria N'koi 61

3. Emergency Time 95

4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135

5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167

6. Motion 207

Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237

Notes 255

Bibliography 309

Index 343
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 372
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822359654
ISBN-10: 0822359650
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hunt, Nancy Rose
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Nancy Rose Hunt
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2016
Gewicht: 0,538 kg
preigu-id: 104836319
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