deracinated

English

Adjective

deracinated (comparative more deracinated, superlative most deracinated)

1. Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
   • 2003, When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America, page 4:

     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.

   • 2014, Amos N. Wilder, Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition, page 54:

     The deracinated Jew is like the deracinated Negro is like the deracinated European is like the deracinated American, as Gertrude Stein might put it.

   • 2017, Mark F. N. Franke, “Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species”, in Jennifer Lawrence, ‎Sarah Marie Wiebe, editor, Biopolitical Disaster, page 1967:

     Those 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 incapable of supporting the same environment and threatening the family of beings supposedly native to it.

2. Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.
   • 2013, Amy Swiffen, ‎Joshua Nichols, The Ends of History: Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason, page 45:

     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).

   • 2013, Charles I. Armstrong, Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History:

     In the related introduction to his essays, he contrasts his own emphasis on tradition with another, more recent—and more deracinated — approach.

   • 2018, Gavin Lucas, Writing the Past:

     Deracinated concepts, like deracinated particulars, travel much more easily. I think one can view Deleuze and Guattari's commercial and pedagogic concepts as both deracinated in this sense, though, of course, made to then move for very different purposes.

Derived terms

• underacinated

Verb

deracinated

1. simple past and past participle of deracinate