A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial CongoIn A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states one "nervous," one biopolitical the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates,