Colonial Madness

Psychiatry in French North Africa

By: Richard C. Keller

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Paperback | 1 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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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"Keller's command of the relevant historiographies is impeccable. To produce Colonial Madness, the author had to read deeply in the literatures of modern France, modern medicine, psychiatry, colonial science, African medical history, the history and ethnography of the Maghreb, and postcolonial theory. Many less accomplished authors might have mastered one or two of these, but Keller has learned them all to an extent that is really formidable, and the payoff is substantial." - Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University"

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Non-Fiction Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Psychiatry History Regional & National History African History Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas Social Groups Ethnic Studies

Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality Medicine in General History of Medicine Psychology Clinical Psychology

Pinel in Maghreb : liberation and confinement in a landscape of sickness	p. 19
Shaping colonial psychiatry : geographies of innovation and economies of care	p. 47
Spaces of experimentation, sites of contestation : doctors, patients, and treatments	p. 83
Between clinical and useful knowledge : race, ethnicity, and the conquest of the "primitive"	p. 121
Violence, resistance, and the poetics of suffering : colonial madness between Frantz Fanon and Kateb Yacine	p. 161
Underdevelopment, migration, and dislocation : postcolonial histories of colonial psychiatry	p. 191
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