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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... past several years. I am grateful also to Mary Murrell and Lauren Lepow for their support and editorial assistance. My new colleagues at Duke have been extremely welcoming. I would particularly like to thank Jane Tompkins, Michael Moses ...
... past fifty years, it has been forced to abandon. The above comment implies, however, that we should read imperialism not simply as the history of England's expansion and contraction but as the history of a cultivated confusion. The ...
... past century and a half, as I indicate in readings of John Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, C.L.R. James, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie, Englishness has consistently been defined through appeals to the identity ...
... past, as a “contact zone” in which succeeding generations serially destabilize the nation's acts of collective remembrance, and in so doing reveal England as continuously discontinuous with itself, as that which may repeat itself but ...
... past can be recovered only through a disavowal of the aftereffects of imperialism on the present. In fact, as I will be arguing throughout this book, there is nothing at all unusual or new about this structure of feeling in which many ...
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