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

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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 quest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baucom, Ian, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Commonwealth
Literature.
Civics & citizenship.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Anthropology.
Social & cultural history.
General & world history.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
Geschichte 1960-1999.
Geschichte 1780-1999.
Litterature anglophone > Histoire et critique.
Identite collective > Dans la litterature.
Caractere national anglais > Dans la litterature.
Imperialisme > Dans la litterature.
Decolonisation > Dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Engels.
Letterkunde.
Imperialisme.
Nationale identiteit.
Entkolonialisierung
Nationalbewusstsein
Kolonialismus
Literatur
Race in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Group identity in literature.
English literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Colonies in literature.
Civilization.
British colonies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Race dans la litterature.
Colonies dans la litterature.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Decolonisation dans la litterature.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Litterature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Anglais dans la litterature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
England.
Angleterre > Civilisation.
England > Civilization.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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."--Pub. desc
"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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781400823031

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