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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... nature, as something communicated to the subject by certain auratic, identity-reforming places, as something, therefore, that can be both acquired and lost, could the global reaches of empire contain spaces LOCATING ENGLISH IDENTITY 5.
... nature of English law itself. English law, famously, is not constitutional in the American sense but prescriptive, sternly devoted to custom and tradition. It is based largely on an unwritten common law that, precisely because it is ...
... nature of its ability to guard and shape England's collective self, leaving “ancient Architecture” as “the only influence which can in any wise ... take the place of that of woods and fields.”31 But in the nation's ancient architectures ...
... nature,” as something that could be acquired, or lost. Englishness was not therefore something to which everyone in Britain could necessarily lay claim—not even everyone born in England, on Ruskin's account, was truly English. Together ...
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