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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 vernacu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Registers of violence
- Maria N'koi
- Emergency time
- Shock talk and flywhisks
- A penal colony, an infertility clinic
- Motion.