Out of Place - Couverture souple

Baucom, Ian

 
9780691004037: Out of Place
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 069100403X ISBN 13 : 9780691004037
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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. Analyzing imperial crisis zones-including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton riots of 1981-Baucom asks if the building of the empire completely refashioned England's narratives of national identity. To answer this question, he draws on a surprising range of sources: Victorian and imperial architectural theory, colonial tourist manuals, lexicographic treatises, domestic and imperial cricket culture, country house fetishism, and the writings of Ruskin, Kipling, Ford Maddox Ford, Forster, Rhys, C.L.R. James, Naipaul, and Rushdie-and representations of urban riot on television, in novels, and in parliamentary sessions. Emphasizing the English preoccupation with place, he discusses some crucial locations of Englishness that replaced the rural sites of Wordsworthian tradition: the Morant Bay courthouse, Bombay's Gothic railway station, the battle grounds of the 1857 uprising in India, colonial cricket fields, and, last but not least, urban riot zones.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Baucom is the Dean of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
069100403X
ISBN 13 
9780691004037
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780691016665: Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691016666 ISBN 13 :  9780691016665
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1999
Couverture rigide