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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... : Migrancy, Nomadism, and the Redemption of the Nation AFTERWORD Something Rich and Strange Notes Index ix 3 41 75 101 135 164 190 219 225 245 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THERE ARE some genres that attempt the possible, others CONTENTS.
... nation's and the empire's spaces. Because those simultaneously literal and metaphorical spaces have been understood as synecdoches of the nation's space (even when they are physically present in imperial territory), and because ...
... nation's essential continuity across time.5 But because even the hardiest lieu de memoire is mutable, because it not only occupies space but is occupied by living subjects who, as they visit, inhabit, or pass through it, leave their ...
... nation could be convinced to abandon the spatial model altogether and to enshrine another first principle of Englishness, a racial principle. But this is allegory, not argument, and an allegory, moreover, that assumes the validity of ...
... Nation, 1707–1837, Colley concludes, “This is how it was with the British after 1707. They came to define themselves as a single people not because of any political or cultural consensus at home, but rather in reaction to the Other ...
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