Out of Place : : Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity / / Ian Baucom.
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 agains...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. Locating English Identity
- CHAPTER ONE. The House of Memory: John Ruskin and the Architecture of Englishness
- CHAPTER TWO. "British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning
- CHAPTER THREE. The Path from War to Friendship: E. M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage
- CHAPTER FOUR. Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play
- CHAPTER FIVE. Among the Ruins: Topographies of Postimperial Melancholy
- CHAPTER SIX. The Riot of English2ness: Migrancy, Nomadism, and the Redemption of the Nation
- Afterword: Something Rich and Strange
- Notes
- Index