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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... fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still. —Enoch Powell, Reflections of a Statesman LOCATION , LOCATION , LOCATION “The trouble with the Engenglish,” a character in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses stutters, “is that their hiss ...
... fact, party to the national within. Its conservators could save Englishness by insisting that the empire had little or nothing to do with England, by defining imperial space as something subordinate to but quite different from English ...
... fact, as I will be arguing throughout this book, there is nothing at all unusual or new about this structure of feeling in which many English women and men simultaneously avow and disavow the British Empire, and in which Englishness ...
... fact, abandoned more than the tradition of the land. It discarded the peculiarly English tradition of tradition. In the cause of defending white Britons against that imminent racial “swamping” which Margaret LOCATING ENGLISH IDENTITY 13.
... fact that this British nationality bill could eviscerate a traditional, Burkean conception of what it means to be English indicates that empire can equally disrupt the cultural identity of a colonizing nation. The bill further indicates ...
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