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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... rule would indeed be that simple. But Britain's borders, to put it mildly, have been far from stable, and the “rule,” consequently, far from simple to apply. As England conquered Ireland, crowned a Scottish king, united with Scotland ...
... rules laid down by individual commonwealth countries discovered themselves to be subjects of Britain but citizens of ... rule. Britishness, the bill announced, coincided with the territory of the nation and the empire. It was a global ...
... rule but programatically from the 1960s onward, by largely abandoning spatial and territorial ideologies for a racial “discourse of loyalty” and coidentity. The shift to a racialized conception of collective identity was codified in the ...
... rule further stipulated that the empire should create a body of colonial subjects who were, in the words of Thomas Babington Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education, “English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.”32 As ...
... rule seems antithetical to the rejection of the magic of place, the abandonment of the association of Englishness with empire, and the antitraditionalism that I have been suggesting characterize Powell's and Thatcher's sometimes ...
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