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A Nervous State - Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Paperback)
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A Nervous State - Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Paperback)
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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.
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