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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... present in imperial territory), and because nationalist discourse, as Benedict Anderson suggests, expresses a will to synchronic and diachronic coincidences of identity, a will to homogenize the present by submitting it to the ...
... present, by acting as what Pierre Nora calls a lieu de memoire that purports to testify to the nation's essential continuity across time.5 But because even the hardiest lieu de memoire is mutable, because it not only occupies space but ...
... present. In fact, as I will be arguing throughout this book, there is nothing at all unusual or new about this structure of feeling in which many English women and men simultaneously avow and disavow the British Empire, and in which ...
... present, with a purely genealogical principle of British identity. Specifically, the law confirmed the 1971 decision that individuals born in the colonies were not patrials (and hence had no right of abode), but further decreed that ...
... present, that that oxygen becomes an alien presence to us, an object to be studied, filtered, purified, conditioned. In that traditionalist moment, as the past ceases to be an environment and becomes an object or, more properly, an ...
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