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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... suggests through his sardonic mouthpiece, is less a place where England exerts control than the place where England loses command of its own narrative of identity. It is the place onto which the island kingdom arrogantly displaces ...
... suggests, whatever specific “ways-of-being” Englishness has been understood to entail, Englishness has been generally understood to reside within some type of imaginary, abstract, or actual locale, and to mark itself upon that locale's ...
... suggest that the Gothic cathedral, the cricket field, the riot zone, and the other spaces I examine function as contestatory locations of English identity; but there is an identifiable moment in which the nation's elected ...
... suggests that the tendency of nations to wander beyond their discernible borders, by distributing their populations ... suggest exactly what I will be arguing throughout this book: that Englishness has been identified with Britishness ...
... suggests, however, that we should attend to the full rhetorical ambiguity of Spivak's proverb. For the fact that ... suggest that Anglocentric constructions of Britishness erase the cultural identity of those Britons who are not English ...
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Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity Ian Baucom Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |