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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... once to claim and disclaim the spaces and subjects of its empire. BRITISHNESS In the summer of 1981, the British Parliament passed Margaret Thatcher's British Nationality Act. In doing so, Parliament wrote into law a bill designed to ...
... once identical and different. Largely void of any particular meaning, Britishness was a product of its forms of reproduction. Preserved by custom, Britishness announced itself as the preservation of custom. Born of the soil, it indulged ...
... once again virtually everyone who could give the “right” answer proved to be white),17 but fewer scholars, at least in the fields of cultural and postcolonial criticism, have recognized the act's revolutionary repudiation of the idea ...
... once “respectable street” on which the woman lives has become “a place of noise and confusion”), Englishness is here revealed, in the moment of its vanishing, as whiteness, a command of the English language, and a certain kind of ...
... 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 be exported to the colonies, there to continue their work of ...
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