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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... 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 nationalist discourse, as Benedict ...
... space but is occupied by living subjects who, as they visit, inhabit, or pass through it, leave their estranging marks upon it, the locale also serves as the site in which the present re-creates the past, as a “contact zone” in which ...
... spaces in which one could be English? Or was the empire truly beyond the boundaries of Englishness, a radically alien ... space, and by identifying the empire's subjects as persons subordinate to but quite different from England's ...
... space was thus read as homogeneous, interchangeable, everywhere alike, while “English” space remained unique, local, differentiated: a formula which permitted the empire to be that which was simultaneously within the boundaries of ...
... space to time by banishing the ius soli's relevance to the past and then replacing it, in the present, with a purely genealogical principle of British identity. Specifically, the law confirmed the 1971 decision that individuals born in ...
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