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Colonial Madness - Psychiatry in French North Africa (Paperback, New edition)
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Colonial Madness - Psychiatry in French North Africa (Paperback, New edition)
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Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim
colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid
sexuality, and primitive madness. "Colonial Madness" traces the
genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of
colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which
psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial
racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism
for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican
citizenship.
Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France
and North Africa, Richard Keller offers much more than a history of
colonial psychology. "Colonial Madness" explores the notion of what
French thinkers saw as an inherent mental, intellectual, and
behavioral rift marked by the Mediterranean, as well as the idea of
the colonies as an experimental space freed from the limitations of
metropolitan society and reason. These ideas have modern relevance,
Keller argues, reflected in French thought about race and debates
over immigration and France's postcolonial legacy.
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