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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... means to be not only a reader but a person in the world. An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as “Mournful Histories: Narratives of Postimperial Melancholy,” in Modern Fiction Studies 42, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 259–88. Out of Place ...
... means.”1 Charmed by this observation, Rushdie devotes much of his energy in the surrounding pages of his text to decoding the sly wisdom of this lesson in English bewilderment. The “overseas” in question is, of course, the vast imperial ...
... mean both that these and other places have served as apt metaphors for writers struggling to define what it means to be English, and that such metaphoric understandings have been literalized, sometimes subtly, sometimes crudely, so that ...
... means absolute. During the period examined in this book, other standards—primarily racial and linguistic standards—have been identified as the first principles of Englishness. Indeed, as I shall discuss at some length later in this ...
... mean that colonialism disrupts, distorts, and deforms the identities of the colonized.19 The logic of the 1981 ... means to be English indicates that empire can equally disrupt the cultural identity of a colonizing nation. The bill ...
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