Root-based identity condemns emigrants to being split and flattened.

Evidence

One of the most dramatic consequences of interdependence concerns the hazards of emigration. “\Then identity is determined by a root, the emigrant is condemned (especially in the second generation) to being split and flattened. Usually an outcast in the place he has newly set anchor, he is forced into impossible attempts to reconcile his former and his present belonging. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 714

Categorization

• XREF: Analytic contrast to Glissant’s own relational identity and to the reader’s question of collective vs individual irony: the emigrant is the individual subject who cannot sustain split identity without a relational alternative to root-identity. — connects to: Diasporic identity is formed by routes as much as by roots — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1201; Diasporic identity must be deliberately reconfigured rather than naturally inherited. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1203; Convivial relations carry radical openness that undermines fixed and reified identity. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 23
• STORYSTEM: The second-generation emigrant forced to reconcile two belongings is a strong narrative engine for fiction about identity as inescapable bind.

Broader Connections

• Diasporic identity is formed by routes as much as by roots #qualifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1201
• Diasporic identity must be deliberately reconfigured rather than naturally inherited. #expands (0.70) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1203
• Convivial relations carry radical openness that undermines fixed and reified identity. #corroborates (0.70) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 23