Insanity, Race and Colonialism
Insanity, Race and Colonialism

Author: L. Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1137318058

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Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.

With Silent Tread
With Silent Tread

Author: Frieda Cassin

Publisher: Caribbean Classics

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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This is an understated evocation of a claustrophobic island community struggling with the bitter legacies of slavery.

Leprosy and Empire
Leprosy and Empire

Author: Rod Edmond

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13: 1139462873

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An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.