Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings
Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings
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殖民地环境中的焦虑、恐惧和恐慌
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10.1007/978-3-319-45136-7_4
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2016
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Jackson W
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现有的殖民焦虑的学术作品的想法，某些种类的不适，不适和痛苦伴随着“殖民地的情况”。但是，这部著作很少考虑不同的殖民环境如何为不同类型的人产生不同的焦虑。本章讲述了殖民焦虑的世界，其中有一个殖民地的精神病人：20世纪50年代的肯尼亚。他们的焦虑只是模糊地类似于历史学家所描述的那种典型的殖民地焦虑。更能说明问题的是焦虑所处的传记背景。在殖民秩序即将消失的时刻，定居者精神病患者的生活为20世纪的英国及其帝国提供了一种新颖的反叙事。他们还以新的视角看待肯尼亚定居者社区在应对茅茅暴力时表现出的更公开形式的精神崩溃。
Existing scholarship on colonial anxieties works on the idea that certain kinds of ill-ease, discomfort and distress accompanied ‘the colonial situation’. But little of this work considers how different colonial situations engendered different kinds of anxiety for different kinds of people. This chapter populates the world of colonial anxieties with mental patients in one settler colony: Kenya in the 1950s. Their anxieties only vaguely resemble the kinds of anxieties that historians have described as characteristically colonial. More revealing is the biographical context in which anxieties were embedded. At a moment when the colonial order was on the cusp of disappearing, the lives of the settler insane give a novel counter-narrative to Britain and its empire in the twentieth century. They also place in new perspective the more overt forms of mental breakdown that the settler community in Kenya performed in response to the violence of Mau Mau.