Diasporic subjects miss shared generational experience with those who stayed behind

Evidence

It’s interesting, in relation to Jamaica, because my close friends whom I left behind then went through experiences which I didn’t. They lived 1968 there, the birth of black consciousness and the rise of Rastafarianism, with its memories of Africa. They lived those years in a different way from me, so I’m not of their generation either. I was at school with them, and I’ve kept in touch with them, but they have an entirely different experience from mine. Now that gap cannot be filled. You can’t “go home” again. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 768

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sixties debates lack the generational emotional experience of the period — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 955; A generation feels lost for having missed every militant moment by a phase — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 476