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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... Rushdie's The Satanic Verses stutters, “is that their hiss hiss history happened overseas, so they dodo don't know what it means.”1 Charmed by this observation, Rushdie devotes much of his energy in the surrounding pages of his text to ...
... Rushdie indicates that such imperial estrangements of English identity survive the formal end of imperialism, that a postimperial England is itself resident to lingering zones of imperial confusion. This book plots the construction of ...
... Rushdie calls the “Raj Revivalism” of the 1980s—the nostalgic celebration of the imperial past evident in the television and filmic productions of The Far Pavilions, The Jewel in the Crown, and A Passage to India—this reauraticization ...
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