Deracinated

"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."

"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)."