Author : Lynette Jackson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489402
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Surfacing Up by : Lynette Jackson
Download or read book Surfacing Up written by Lynette Jackson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia -- Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933 -- Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni -- Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness -- Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942 -- The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968.