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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... reading. Foremost among them are Sara Suleri Goodyear, without whom there would have been no book, just a muddle of ideas; Vera Kutzinski, whose patient and critical reading of the text has lent it whatever felicities of form it might ...
... reading—for that gift, and countless others, I thank my parents, and the loving God whose Son continues to teach me what it means to be not only a reader but a person in the world. An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as “Mournful ...
... reading the narrative of England's imperial confusion as a history of these simultaneously disciplinary and ... readings of John Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, C.L.R. James, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie ...
... reading of the ius soli (though it was also attributable to a reconceptualization of subjectivity introduced in a series of 1960s and 1970s acts that I shall discuss below), then there is also a history of equivocation in the ...
... reading of Englishness as primarily a racial category. In the nineteenth century, in particular, numerous English historians organized their histories of England as race histories of the Anglo-Saxons.24 Sharon Turner's three-volume ...
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