Emotional Latitudes: The Ambiguities of Colonial and Post-Colonial Sentiment
Authors: Matsuda, Matt; Bullard, Alice
Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 34, Number 1, Spring 2008 , pp. 1-3(3)
Abstract:
A collection of essays dedicated to the history of sentiment and emotions in the constitution of imperial and colonial projects. Subjects range from eighteenth-century marriage and military careers, to ethnically mixed couples during the Great War, to contemporary "arranged marriage" television programs in Madagascar. The collection also traces constructions of nineteenth and twentieth-century female slavery in Morocco, and meditations on family rooted and professional contexts in Laos and New Caledonia, complicating links between personal experience and historiographic knowledge. A closing essay draws together many of the themes with a detailed reading of key texts in colonial and postcolonial psychiatry.