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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... writing this book, there are some that I am glad to begin paying, if only on installment. I have had many teachers at Wake Forest and Yale University who have guided my thinking and reading. Foremost among them are Sara Suleri Goodyear ...
... writers struggling to define what it means to be English, and that such metaphoric understandings have been literalized, sometimes subtly, sometimes crudely, so that these material places have been understood to literally shape the ...
... 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 global vocabulary are central, in ...
... Writing in this tradition, and deploying a rhetoric that largely anticipates Powell's, Edward Freeman, in his 1876 History of the English Constitution, explicitly linked the genius of the English to their ability to maintain a racial ...
... writer, industrial modernity had largely deprived nature of its ability to guard and shape England's collective self, leaving “ancient Architecture” as “the only influence which can in any wise ... take the place of that of woods and ...
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