Diasporic identification operates along a spectrum of différance

Evidence

Were they to return to their villages of origin, the most traditional would be regarded as “Westernized”—if not hopelessly diaspora-ized. They are all negotiating culturally somewhere along the spectrum of différance, in which disjunctures of time, generation, spatialization, and dissemination refuse to be neatly aligned. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 355

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘différance’ as the organizing concept for diasporic identity negotiation.
• XREF: Connects to Derrida’s différance and to later theorizations of hybridity in postcolonial studies.