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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 34
... cricket field, the country house, and the zone of urban riot—each of which has housed the disciplinary projects of imperialism and the imperial destabilizations and re-formations of English identity. In reading the narrative of ...
... cricket field, the riot zone, and the other spaces I examine function as contestatory locations of English identity; but there is an identifiable moment in which the nation's elected representatives voted to turn their back on this ...
... cricketer whose cricketing excellence secured, in the minds of his teammates, his Englishness, Ford summarizes his argument by commenting on the common Englishness of his schoolmates, this black youth, and the Norman king. We felt ...
... cricket field. Place here is not a mere expanse but something that contains and communicates a certain type of tradition. Whereas space in the legal discourses on Britishness serves as the basis for a system of categorization, in this ...
... cricket fields and schools, are clearly, in this sense, “lieux de memoire,” as are virtually all the locations of identity I will be examining in this book. They are places where an identity-preserving, identity-enchanting, and identity ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity Ian Baucom Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity Ian Baucom Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity Ian Baucom Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |