Anti-colonial theorists foregrounded the psychic injuries empire inflicted.

Evidence

Some might rightly argue that this caricatures, or at least overstates, the case. Early critical witnesses to colonial distress have identified the psychic injuries of empire, what Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha following him cast as the “weeping wounds,” the “avenging anger,” the “psychic violence” imposed on the colonized. Aimé Césaire, Albert Memmi, and Ousmane Sembene, among others, have singled out the insecurities of those Europeans taught to rule and the violences that followed from the prescriptions imposed upon, and weakly or fiercely embraced by, them. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 378

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into the reader’s library via Fanon and Bhabha lineage, and echoes the Frankfurt School work on psychic injury.