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disassociation noun breach, break, breakdown, detachment, dichotomy, discerption, disconnection, disengagement, disjointure, disjunction, dismemberment, disruption, disseverence, dissociation, dissolution, disunion, divarication, divergence, division, divorce, divorcement, interruption, partition, rift, rupture, schism, segmentation, separation, severence, split See also: division, estrangement, inconsequence, privacy, schism, segregation, separation, severance, split How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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McLuhan (1962) noted the importance of the elimination of time and space barriers that are characteristic of electronic media, and Bauman (2003) noted that the disassociation of virtual proximity from virtual distance is a suspension of anything that linked closeness with proximity. When one then enters the building, the sense of disassociation continues: The grand stair one might again expect at this point (as one finds at the Met or the Art Institute) is missing, having been moved to an interior courtyard to the left. At the same time, the zombie in the text suggests that Hurston is "signifying" or commenting indirectly on Haiti's historical subjugation; as Paravisini-Gebert notes, "the myth of the zombie is that of the Haitian experience of slavery, of the disassociation of people from their will, their reduction to beasts of burden subject to a master" (39). |
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