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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... precisely their generic logic and significance), but because local inflections of this increasingly global vocabulary are central, in specific and historically identifiable ways, to the ideologies of English nationalism, the cult of ...
... precisely because it is unwritten, has suggested to its defenders that their task is to preserve the law, not to interpret it. Edmund Burke, one of the most ardent celebrants of England's custom of relying on custom, advanced as ...
... precisely such mocking celebrations of the English as a “Mongrel HalfBred Race” that Freeman and other nineteenth-century race theorists sought to silence. That they were not entirely successful in this attempt is partially evidenced by ...
... precisely, that guarantees the Englishness of the English, by picking up where Daniel Defoe left off, by clarifying, that is, what is not essential to Englishness. As he unambiguously states, “In the case of a people descended from ...
... precisely at the moment that we become aware of our environments of memory, precisely at the moment that we pause to contemplate the breath of the past expanding the lungs of the present, that that oxygen becomes an alien presence to us ...
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