Colonial officials shared exile’s solidarity and loss of contact despite choosing dislocation

Evidence

Valck and those who chose colonial service had no claims to the state of exile in these terms. Still, despite their privilege, they shared in what Said called a “jealous state,” an “ex- aggerated sense of group solidarity” and the pathos of “loss of contact” that their racialized worlds so viscerally bestowed. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1320

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Connects to Said’s Reflections on Exile and to broader postcolonial theory the reader works with; relevant to colonial-archival epistemic framing.

Related

• Voluntary colonial servants shared exile’s psychic burdens despite lacking its claims (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #expands (0.55) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1332