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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... Fanon to discover the geography of imperialism as, above all else, a “zone of occult instability.”3 In describing the territories of British imperialism as spaces of bewilderment and loss which continue to trouble and.
... territory), and because nationalist discourse, as Benedict Anderson suggests, expresses a will to synchronic and diachronic coincidences of identity, a will to homogenize the present by submitting it to the sovereignty of the past ...
... territories it had colonized? If, as Homi Bhabha argues, every nation defines itself by simultaneously gazing inward, to regard the “heimlich pleasures of the hearth,” and outward, to confront and repudiate the “unheimlich terror of the ...
... territory of the loss of Englishness? Or, most ominously for figures such as Enoch Powell and his predecessors, was it neither of these but the place where Englishness would be reformed, a place crowded with “other spaces,” other ...
... territorial principle as the sole absolute determinant of British identity, the act determined that Britain was, henceforth, a genealogical community. Or, to put matters a little differently and to align them with the primary concerns ...
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