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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