Fragile Identities: The Colonial Consequences of CJR Le Mesurier in Ceylon
In the colonial narrative there are conforming types that constantly recur to the point of parody. In the colonial narrative there are conforming types that constantly recur to the point of parody. As places of periphery, colonies attracted the existentially displaced and those attempting to remake themselves, what Talleyrand called "restless men who need projects and unfortunate men who need hope".2