Scholars attribute flat interiorities to colonial figures they oppose

Evidence

At its core is a rejection of the premise that we who study the colonial know both what imperial rule looks like and the dispositions of those it empowers. It responds to the flat interiorities commonly attributed to those with whom we do not sympathize, politically or otherwise. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1294

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critiques of one-dimensional villainy in empire historiography and to the reader’s interest in colonial epistemic anxieties; echoes Saidian or subaltern-studies warnings against caricaturing colonizer subjectivities.