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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... belong to this profession. Numerous colleagues at Yale and elsewhere have aided my thinking about this book while encouraging me to think about other things as well; I am particularly grateful to Chris Miller, Paul Fry, Sarah Winter ...
... belonging? If that were so, then Englishness, as Powell conceives it, could survive intact only by refusing to admit that the imperial beyond was, in fact, party to the national within. Its conservators could save Englishness by ...
... belong to a potentially unlimited collectivity. Wherever there was British territory, one could be British, as one may be a Christian, a Marxist, or a typist wherever the gospel is preached, Das Kapital is read, or 10 INTRODUCTION.
... belonging could be reconstructed, these identity-determining sites could secure the cultural identity of the colonists and Anglicize, reform, and civilize the colonized. While localist ideology, in both its domestic and imperial idioms ...
... belong partly to those who built them, and partly to all the generations of mankind who are to follow us” (Works, 8:245), Ruskin insisted that England could still find that which “connects forgotten and following ages with each other ...
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