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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... imperial abroad that, over the course of three centuries, England colonized and that, in the past fifty years, it has been forced to abandon. The above comment implies, however, that we should read imperialism not simply as the history ...
... imperial destabilizations and re-formations of English identity. In reading the narrative of England's imperial confusion as a history of these simultaneously disciplinary and antidisciplinary locales, I have responded to the tutelage ...
... imperial re-formation its locations of identity. For what did England see when it studied the territories it had colonized? If, as Homi Bhabha argues, every nation defines itself by simultaneously gazing inward, to regard the “heimlich ...
... imperial culture and to anti-imperial critique, are reexamined in this book not simply because these and other writers have demonstrated their generic power, influence, and urgency (though I do frequently explore precisely their generic ...
... imperial past can be recovered only through a disavowal of the aftereffects of imperialism on the present. In fact, as I will be arguing throughout this book, there is nothing at all unusual or new about this structure of feeling in ...
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