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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... Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still. —Enoch Powell, Reflections of a Statesman LOCATION , LOCATION ...
... Indian Mutiny pilgrimage, the cricket field, the country house, and the zone of urban riot—each of which has housed the disciplinary projects of imperialism and the imperial destabilizations and re-formations of English identity. In ...
... India, and those Indian and other ex-colonial subjects who managed to survive the lowering of the Union Jack, or that the imperial past can be recovered only through a disavowal of the aftereffects of imperialism on the present. In fact ...
... Indian subcontinent, and Africa, the recourse to a territorial definition of collective identity meant that Britishness, at least as a legal concept, was to become as elastic as the nation's imperial boundaries. The challenge that the ...
... India, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were threatening to follow the lead of Canada, which in 1946 had established an independent category of citizenship; in response to this pressure the British government passed a bill which ...
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