Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of IdentityPrinceton University Press, 25.01.1999 - 280 Seiten In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. |
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... British to the Backbone”: On Imperial Subject-Fashioning CHAPTER THREE The Path from War to Friendship: E. M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage CHAPTER FOUR Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play CHAPTER FIVE ...
... writings of Frantz Fanon to discover the geography of imperialism as, above all else, a “zone of occult instability.”3 In describing the territories of British imperialism as spaces of bewilderment and loss which continue to trouble and.
... British spaces and British subjects: a solution that manages the neat trick of allowing England to simultaneously avow and disavow its empire. Or Englishness could be saved if the nation could be convinced to abandon the spatial model ...
... British Parliament passed Margaret Thatcher's British Nationality Act. In doing so, Parliament wrote into law a bill designed to divorce England from its “overseas” history, a law designed to defend the “island kingdom” against its ...
... British identity, the act determined that Britain was, henceforth, a genealogical community. Or, to put matters a little differently and to align them with the primary concerns of this book, whereas through the entire preceding history ...
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