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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 v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hunt, Nancy Rose (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Registers of violence
  • Maria N'koi
  • Emergency time
  • Shock talk and flywhisks
  • A penal colony, an infertility clinic
  • Motion.