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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... indicates that such imperial estrangements of English identity survive the formal end of imperialism, that a ... indicate in readings of John Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, C.L.R. James, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman ...
... indicate why that trope is not only valid but unavoidable. The rhetorics of spatiality and the subrhetorics of locatedness that are so common a feature of contemporary critical practice and that, as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi ...
... indicated, therefore, that the territory of the United Kingdom and the territory of the colonies were not interchangeable, that the “home” soil had greater right-endowing properties than the soil beyond the sea. Perhaps more important ...
... indicates that empire can equally disrupt the cultural identity of a colonizing nation. The bill further indicates that Englishness and Britishness are not necessarily coterminous, particularly as each, in turn, negotiates its relation ...
... indicates, however, that, like Powell, Freeman is aware of an alternative reading of English identity that he wishes to replace with his theory of race purity. That alternative, and preceding, understanding, which emphasized the racial ...
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