Colonial print culture registered politically charged structures of feeling.

Evidence

Again colonial print culture points in a different direction: ofïŹcial archives, belles-lettres, the press, and epistolary history register “structures of feeling” of political import-emergent sites of critique, inchoate common and unarticulated expectations, what Raymond Williams described as 15 Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), 43, 44, 63; Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1979 ). — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic
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Categorization

  • DEFINE: Invokes Raymond Williams’ ‘structures of feeling’ as a tool for reading colonial archives — a key analytic for the reader’s research.