Colonial sources are produced not found, so fact and fiction blur

Evidence

The case need no longer be made that “sources” are not “springs” of colonial truths. Distinguishing fiction from fact has given way to efforts to track the production and consumption of facticities as the contingent coordinates of particular times and temperaments, places and purposes. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 201

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts ‘sources as springs’ with ‘production and consumption of facticities’ as the governing metaphor shift in colonial historiography.