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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... offering a slight translation of his epigram. The trouble with the English, in my account of the imperial transformations of English identity, is not that their history “happened” overseas, but that it “took place” abroad. Over the past ...
... offered the yet more mystic, if hidebound, response, “Our Ancestor, The Soil”). In Benedict Anderson's terms, the model of collective identity enshrined in the 1948 Nationality Act identified Britishness as a mandatory but “unbound ...
... offer them when they were effectively barred from emigrating to the United Kingdom. If the crisis into which these would-be immigrants were thrown can be traced, in part, to a brutally exact reading of the ius soli (though it was also ...
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