Nancy Rose Hunt: Psychiatric Contours

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Cover: 9781478030348 | Psychiatric Contours | New African Histories of Madness | Hunt | Buch

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Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term madness broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters detect the mad or the psychiatric in unhinged persons, frantic collectives, and distressing situations. Others investigate individuals suffering from miscategorization. A key Foucauldian word, vivacity, illuminates how madness aligns with pathology, creativity, turbulence, and psychopolitics. The archives, patient-authored or not, speak to furies and fantasies inside asylums, colonial institutions, decolonizing missions, and slave ships. The frayed edges of politicized deliria open up the senses and optics of psychiatry's history in Africa far beyond clinical spaces and classification. The volume also proposes fresh concepts, notably the vernacular, to suggest how to work with emic clues in a granular fashion and telescope the psychiatric within histories of madness. With chapters stretching across much of ex-British and ex-French colonial Africa, Psychiatric Contours attends to the words, autobiographies, and hallucinations of the stigmatized and afflicted as well as of the powerful. Expatriate psychiatrists with cameras, prying authorities, fearful missionaries, and colonial anthropologists enter these readings beside patients, asylums, and boarding schools via research on possession "hysteria" and schizophrenia. In brief, this book demonstrates novel ways of writing not only medical history but all subaltern and global histories.

Contributors. Hubertus Büschel, Raphaël Gallien, Matthew M. Heaton, Richard Hölzl, Nancy Rose Hunt, Richard C. Keller, Sloan Mahone, Nana Osei Quarshie, Jonathan Sadowsky, Romain Tiquet

Über den Autor

Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Florida and author of A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo, also published by Duke University Press.

Hubertus Büschel is Professor of History at the University of Kassel and author or editor of several books published in German.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular: Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia / Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar / Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology / Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya / Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, “Danger,” and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	358
ISBN-13:	9781478030348
ISBN-10:	1478030348
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Hunt, Nancy Rose
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Nancy Rose Hunt
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,519 kg

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