Title A nervous state : violence, remedies, and reverie in colonial Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 353 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Registers of violence -- Maria N'koi -- Emergency time -- Shock talk and flywhisks -- A penal colony, an infertility clinic -- Motion Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Medicine -- Belgium -- Colonies -- History Medicine -- History. Medicine -- Colonies -- History -- Belgium History of Medicine Colonialism -- history Social Conditions -- history Violence -- history History, 20th Century history of medicine. HISTORY -- Africa -- Central. HISTORY / Africa / South / General Social conditions Kolonialismus Medizin Medicine -- Colonies -- Belgium -- History. SUBJECT Belgium -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonies -- Social conditions Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149566 Democratic Republic of the Congo https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015023 Subject Belgium Congo (Democratic Republic) Belgisch-Kongo Belgium -- Colonies -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015024233 ISBN 9780822375241 0822375249

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