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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... locale, and to mark itself upon that locale's familiars. Over the past 150 years the struggles to define, defend, or reform Englishness have, consequently, been understood as struggles to control, possess, order, and dis-order the ...
... locale also serves as the site in which the present re-creates the past, as a “contact zone” in which succeeding ... locale—and with the local knowledges, local dialects, local traditions, and local memories that are held to emerge from ...
... locales, other local knowledges and local memories that must begin, sooner or later, to enter the canon, to expand the ... locale assert their sovereignty over the discourses of English identity, no originary moment which has led me, in ...
... locale was that it could meet all three of these demands at once—particularly after Ruskin had attributed an identity-forming and reforming power to architecture. For, unlike England's fields and meadows, England's architectures could ...
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