Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
MONDAY, November 25, when
Isabela Fraga
PhD Candidate
Romance Languages and Literature, University of Chicago
presents the paper:
“Nostalgic Subjects of Colonial Medicine: Trajectories of Feeling in Iberian Slavery”
MONDAY, November 25
4:30-6pm | Cobb 409
Respondent: Zoe Berman, Comparative Human Development
This session is co-sponsored by the Medicine and its Objects Workshop.
Description: This paper explores nostalgia in late-eighteenth- and mid-nineteenth-century Brazil and Cuba as an illness that particularly affected enslaved Africans. Addressing three medical texts of the time, I argue that nostalgia played a double role in slave governance: 1) as a new medical technology produced to manage growing enslaved populations, and 2) as a rhetorical space where men of letters involved in the governance and treatment of slaves built a conception of subjectivity based on feeling and sentiment instead of reason.
The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Affect and the Emotions Workshop mailing list and is available in the post below with a password. Light refreshments will be served.
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Image: Jean-Baptiste Debret, Tattooed Black Woman Selling Cashew Fruits. 1827.
