Colonial subjectivity means experiencing the world’s center as elsewhere and outside oneself.

Evidence

I am talking about experiencing oneself, thinking about one’s society and one’s future, from the position of a colonial subject. I left for England twelve years before independence. My whole formation had been as a child of colored middle-class Jamaican society. That is to experience oneself as “colonized”—that is, fundamentally displaced from the center of the world, which was always represented to me as “elsewhere” and at the same time dislocated from the people and conditions around me. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1191

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of the colonial subject’s double displacement: the world’s center is ‘elsewhere’ while simultaneously dislocated from one’s own surroundings.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Orientalism toolkit—the colonized self is constituted by the colonizer’s centered world, which lands squarely on Said’s construction of the Other.