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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... course, is one of the latter. But while I cannot adequately acknowledge all the debts I have incurred while writing this book, there are some that I am glad to begin paying, if only on installment. I have had many teachers at Wake ...
... 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 implies, however, that we should read imperialism not ...
... course of imperial history, are evident in the 1948 British Nationality Bill, the last major piece of legislation that sought to assert the global dimensions of Britishness. In that year, the governments of India, Australia, New Zealand ...
... course, is that the typist has a choice. The individual's inability to choose British subjectivity is only one of the many deleterious features of the 1948 bill and the tradition it represents. I have already mentioned the immediate ...
... course, long been apparent to many Scots and Welsh inhabitants of the United Kingdom. But while intra-island protests against the coincidence of Britishness with Englishness tend to suggest that Anglocentric constructions of Britishness ...
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