deracinated
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4ADJ.
invasive
VERB + DERACINATED
like, rendered
DERACINATED + NOUN
american, european, gertrude, jew, negro, people
PREP.
from, from
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adj
Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
Lucha Corpi's novel explores the ambiguities of social dissent in a liberal democracy by putting into motion a murder mystery where all the major characters are Mexican Americans, some more deracinated than others, some more powerful than others, and some darker than others.
The deracinated Jew is like the deracinated Negro is like the deracinated European is like the deracinated American, as Gertrude Stein might put it.
Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.
Yet, resorting to Derrida now, one may wonder whether the acceleration and excess of meaning generated by such as the realm of the "virtual" leaves us any more deracinated than we were before with a comparative lack of meaning – leaves us any less unable “to objectivize [the archive] with no remainder" – any less unable to transcend the partiality of any afformed determinacy (1998: 16-18, 68).
In the related introduction to his essays, he contrasts his own emphasis on tradition with another, more recent—and more deracinated — approach.
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4Lucha Corpi's novel explores the ambiguities of social dissent in a liberal democracy by putting into motion a murder mystery where all the major characters are Mexican Americans, some more deracinate
WiktionaryThe deracinated Jew is like the deracinated Negro is like the deracinated European is like the deracinated American, as Gertrude Stein might put it.
WiktionaryThose rendered as deracinated and invasive appear to threaten the ecology on which the state's enclosure is cultivated, posing possible changes to the political ecosystem that would render its soil in
WiktionaryTom had been uprooted from his village, deracinated from his people and all that he knew, and thrown into these terrifying outer wilds.
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