A nervous state : violence, remedies, and reverie in colonial Congo /
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 vernacu...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |