Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of IdentityPrinceton University Press, 25 ian. 1999 - 280 pagini 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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... English, in literature. 3. Commonwealth literature (English)—History and criticism. 4. English literature—19th century—History and criticism. 5. Great Britain—Colonies—History. 6. Group identity in literature. 7. Decolonization in ...
... English bewilderment. The “overseas” in question is, of course, the vast imperial abroad that, over the course of three centuries, England colonized and that, in the past fifty years, it has been forced to abandon. The above comment ...
... 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 construction of these spaces of instability in the geographies of ...
... English to address a sufficiently complex set of problems (of canon formation and preservation, of determining which of England's many localities were most English, of defining their perfect moment, of definitively differentiating them ...
... English? Or was the empire truly beyond the boundaries of Englishness, a radically alien outside within which the colonist would inevitably confront the Kurtzean spectacle of himself or herself “going native”? Was the empire the domain ...
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