Guillaume Lachenal; Cheryl Smeall Book sku-449902491
No rating yet(0 ratings)Theory in Forms: The Doctor Who Would Be King is a hardcover in African History Books, listed under Guillaume Lachenal; Cheryl Smeall as SKU sku-449902491. Lachenal tells the story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed a region of French Cameroon during World War II. Locals called him "emperor."
David sought to establish a medical utopia, imagining he could use his unchecked power to free colonized subjects from misery, ignorance and sickness. Drawing on archives, oral histories and ethnographic fieldwork, Lachenal examines David's earlier attempt at a similar project on a Polynesian island and the continuing effects of his failed experiment in Cameroon.
He also considers memories and remains of David's rule and the wider history of violence, desire and failure surrounding it.
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