TY - BOOK ID - 43688681 TI - Out of place : Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity PY - 1999 SN - 069100403X 0691016666 9786612753695 140082303X 128275369X 1400800420 1400800439 PB - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics [English ] in literature KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - 19th century KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - History KW - England KW - Civilization KW - Group identity in literature KW - Colonies in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Decolonization in literature. KW - Group identity in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - National characteristics, English, in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Civilization. KW - Decolonization in literature KW - National characteristics, English, in literature KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:43688681 AB - 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. ER -