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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... moment, of definitively differentiating them from their corrupting neighbors, of guarding them against the vicissitudes of history), if England, during the same years in which it was discovering itself in Wordsworth's ruined cottages ...
... moment that neatly defines the point at which ideologies of the local and the locale assert their sovereignty over the discourses of English identity, no originary moment which has led me, in consequence of its sudden appearance, to ...
... moment they are repudiated, I want now to turn to that moment, both for the light it casts on the localist ideology that, for almost two centuries, held together the discourses of Englishness and empire, and for the way it illumines the ...
... moment of its vanishing, as whiteness, a command of the English language, and a certain kind of domestic space.22 Most crucially, Powell represents Englishness as something that exists apart from, and utterly fails to coincide with, the ...
... moment that we become aware of our environments of memory, precisely at the moment that we pause to contemplate the breath of the past expanding the lungs of the present, that that oxygen becomes an alien presence to us, an object to be ...
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