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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... century—History and criticism. 2. National characteristics, English, in literature. 3. Commonwealth literature (English)—History and criticism. 4. English literature—19th century—History and criticism. 5. Great Britain—Colonies—History ...
... centuries, England colonized and that, in the past fifty years, it has been forced to abandon. The above comment implies, however, that we should read imperialism not simply as the history of England's expansion and contraction but as ...
... century and a half, as I indicate in readings of John Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, C.L.R. James, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie, Englishness has consistently been defined through appeals to the identity-endowing ...
... centuries, held together the discourses of Englishness and empire, and for the way it illumines the mediating role that “Britishness” has played in allowing England at once to claim and disclaim the spaces and subjects of its empire ...
... century after century was quite clear. Were all the individuals born in the diverse places over which England claimed sovereignty to be considered identically and interchangeably British? The answer that the jurists gave, to the ...
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