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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... simply, of place—of place and of spirit, the spirit being born of the environment. —Ford Madox Ford, The Spirit of the People The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United ...
... simply because these and other writers have demonstrated their generic power, influence, and urgency (though I do frequently explore precisely their generic logic and significance), but because local inflections of this increasingly ...
... simply legal affairs. To be identified by the courts or government ministers as British is not at all the same thing as to identify oneself with Britishness. Nor, to understate matters entirely, do legal LOCATING ENGLISH IDENTITY 11.
... simply, of place—of place and of spirit, the spirit being born of the environment” (43). As anecdotal proof of this conviction, Ford advances the case of William the Conqueror, an undisputed foreigner at first glance, but one whom every ...
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