LEADER 04937nam 2200877Ia 450 001 9910305551403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612753695 010 $a9781400800438 010 $a1400800439 010 $a9781282753693 010 $a128275369X 010 $a9781400823031 010 $a140082303X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823031 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044644 035 $a(EBL)617309 035 $a(OCoLC)705527068 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216889 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190251 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216889 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201883 035 $a(PQKB)11173453 035 $a(DE-B1597)446230 035 $a(OCoLC)979741671 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617309 035 $a(Perlego)3794950 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044644 100 $a19980521d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOut of place $eEnglishness, empire, and the locations of identity /$fIan Baucom 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781400800421 311 08$a1400800420 311 08$a9780691004037 311 08$a069100403X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Locating English Identity -- Ch. 1. The House of Memory: John Ruskin and the Architecture of Englishness -- Ch. 2. "British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning -- Ch. 3. The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage -- Ch. 4. Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play -- Ch. 5. Among the Ruins: Topographies of Postimperial Melancholy -- Ch. 6. The Riot of Englishness: Migrancy, Nomadism, and the Redemption of the Nation -- Afterword: Something Rich and Strange. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, English, in literature 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aDecolonization in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aRace in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xCivilization 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, English, in literature. 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aDecolonization in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a820.9/358 700 $aBaucom$b Ian$f1967-$01753370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910305551403321 996 $aOut of place$94189206 997 $aUNINA