This feeling of alienation results in a 'sense of
rootlessness, of nonparticipation, of being another stranger in the lonely crowd.'
Subsequent years of indoctrination and complete ban on teaching the children of Cymru their own history has caused the
rootlessness which Arfon Jones cites, and the time has come to rediscover and reclaim that identity which was stolen from us.
It was one of the conditions of the 20th century, he had said, this feeling of
rootlessness, of displacement, of home not being here but elsewhere.
Angelica's mother died in the plane crash that triggered her birth; she is utterly isolated by wealth and
rootlessness. Though they live in south-east England, "Beyond those dark hills right now it might as well be Nunavut.
CRPF is India's paramilitary prophylactic and cannon fodder rolled into one, a halfway house between the Army and police that has less cushioning than the Army and more
rootlessness than any local police force.
But there is not a single obscene term in Lolita, and aficionados of erotica are likely to find it a dud." + 2005: Lolita "keeps the promise of genius" + 2018: "Lolita will always be both ravishing and shocking" uA On the Road (Jack Kerouac) "is most readable" but "disappoints" (1957) "Mr Kerouac makes considerable play with [Dean's] disorderly childhood, his hitch in the reform school, and his
rootlessness, but his activities seem less a search for stability than a determined pursuit of euphoria.
Jin tells us that Bai had no strong feelings of attachment to any one place, and his
rootlessness is central to much of his poetry.
Sessions cover topics including Jewish bodies and the reimagining of technique; Jewish dance artists working with community and social justice; trauma and the Holocaust; and immigration,
rootlessness and the diaspora.
It is dangerous to allow an author too much authority to frame her work just the way she wants, but The Bosun Chair is best understood, and most kindly reviewed, in the context of the author's own interpretation of her work as the subgenre "second-generation diaspora literature." Delisle tells us in her prologue of the
rootlessness of hearing stories of "home," a home that is not her natal Alberta but her parents' and ancestors' Newfoundland.
Rootlessness and spiritual confusion spawned by consumer-oriented corporate capitalism in the thrall of technology will find expression in a global order marketed to "docile populations as the divine blueprint for humanity" and kept in line with the "postmodern equivalent of bread and circuses." Democratic forms may survive, but "authoritarian transnational directorates"--no doubt headquartered in Washington--will exercise real power.
An ecovillage in the rural area he grew up in that wants to connect people to their roots.When Joshua Konkankoh moved from his village to the big city, he felt "dismay" and
rootlessness. The sense of community and continuity that had pervaded his childhood in rural Cameroon was lacking in the anonymous capital Yaounde.