Out of place : Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity
"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
Print Book, English, ©1999
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 249 pages ; 24 cm
9780691016665, 9780691004037, 9781400823031, 9781400810949, 0691016666, 069100403X, 140082303X, 1400810949
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Locating English Identity3Ch. 1The House of Memory: John Ruskin and the Architecture of Englishness41Ch. 2"British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning75Ch. 3The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage101Ch. 4Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play135Ch. 5Among the Ruins: Topographies of Postimperial Melancholy164Ch. 6The Riot of Englishness: Migrancy, Nomadism, and the Redemption of the Nation190Afterword: Something Rich and Strange219Notes225Index245
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