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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... Subject-Fashioning CHAPTER THREE The Path from War to Friendship: E. M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage CHAPTER FOUR Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play CHAPTER FIVE Among the Ruins: Topographies of ...
... subjects, Rushdie indicates that such imperial estrangements of English identity survive the formal end of imperialism, that a postimperial England is itself resident to lingering zones of imperial confusion. This book plots the ...
... subjects who, as they visit, inhabit, or pass through it, leave their estranging marks upon it, the locale also ... subject. This turn from place to race (which is a marked feature of New Right discourse in England over the past thirty ...
... subjects as persons subordinate to but quite different from England's subjects—by identifying these as British spaces and British subjects: a solution that manages the neat trick of allowing England to simultaneously avow and disavow ...
... 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 divorce England from its “overseas” history ...
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