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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... Colonies—History. 6. Group identity in literature. 7. Decolonization in literature. 8. Imperialsim in literature. 9. Colonies in literature. 10. England—Civilization. 11. Race in literature. I. Title. PR478.N37B38 1999 820.9′358—dc21 98 ...
... colonial and postcolonial “conditions” have identified a central deliriousness in the workings of imperial history ... colonialism seemed so adept at producing.2 Bhabha, in particular, has attended to the discursive ambivalences of ...
... 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, as I will be arguing throughout ...
... colonies in North America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the 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 ...
... Colonies citizens, would remain British subjects. A frankly fantastic piece of legislation (in the less than laudatory sense of the word), the 1948 bill served to maintain the illusion of sovereignty over the Commonwealth, the dictates ...
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