How Long to Read A Nervous State

How Long Does it Take to Read A Nervous State?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read A Nervous State by Nancy Rose Hunt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 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, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo’s famed postwar...

How long is A Nervous State?

A Nervous State by Nancy Rose Hunt is 376 pages long, and a total of 96,256 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Nervous State Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 45 minutes to read A Nervous State aloud.

What Reading Level is A Nervous State?

A Nervous State is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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