Facing the crisis of a colony at war, Harriet Gore Browne experienced a crisis of mind as the wife of a governor heavily criticized for acting unjustly and illegally in provoking a racial conflict. Analysing the intimacies of power, the article depicts the doubts, pain and haunting pressure of violence on those proximate to as well as subject to imperial authority. Harriet Gore Browne’s intense scrutiny of her own and her husband’s actions expose an interior questioning of the legitimate use of force against indigenous resistance. The pain running through Harriet Gore Browne’s journals, tormenting her days and nights, speaks to the centrality of race, emotion and the intimate in colonial rule.

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伤害的力量：哈丽特·戈尔·布朗和帝国内部生活的困惑

面对战争中殖民地的危机，哈里特·戈尔·布朗 (Harriet Gore Browne) 经历了心理危机，因为州长的妻子因挑起种族冲突的不公正和非法行为受到严厉批评。这篇文章分析了权力的亲密关系，描绘了那些亲近和受制于帝国权威的人所遭受的怀疑、痛苦和难以忘怀的暴力压力。哈丽特·戈尔·布朗 (Harriet Gore Browne) 对自己和丈夫行为的严密审查暴露了对合法使用武力对抗土著抵抗的内心质疑。哈丽特·戈尔·布朗 (Harriet Gore Browne) 日记中的痛苦日日夜夜折磨着她，说明了殖民统治中种族、情感和亲密关系的中心地位。