He would later return to his home country as a conscript in the French army, a classic instance of divided identity.
It's the distance between the tenacious French imaginary of the secular state integrating every immigrant and the facts of increasingly divided identity.
But his divided identity does allow Mr. Spacey to jump out of his skin, to break through his sly reserve in a moment of wailing, screaming anguish tailor-made for the video screens on Oscar night.
The last ones to call people half-Jews or mischlinge were Nazis; they divided identity up so neatly because they saw Jewishness in racial, not religious or cultural terms.
The paradox is that in the name of putting the genocide behind them Rwandans have had it held constantly in front of them, as a warning of the perils of divided identity.
Mr. Snyder borrows too many canted camera angles and too much sun-kissed fluttering laundry from Terrence Malick, but the Kansas scenes solidify the human foundation of a divided identity.
The second track, "The English and Western Stallion," opens with an a-cappella section and then blossoms into a kind of California version of Belle and Sebastian — a song about divided identity, wounded and vulnerable but ultimately defiant.
Even today, despite his manifold failings, such as locking up his opponents and rampant cronyism, Mr Yanukovych retains considerable support in his industrial heartland.The interventions of outside powers seem to reflect and reinforce this sense of a hopelessly divided identity.
Iyer, a novelist, essayist and travel writer, follows Greene's trail from his first novel, "The Man Within," to classics like "The Quiet American," exploring ideas of love, faith and divided identity.
Pakistan had, in any case, exerted a fascination upon me throughout my foreign schooling which arose not only from intense nostalgia but also from my divided identity, my sense of being perhaps more like my American mother than like my Pakistani father, aware even as a child that I observed the place from a remove.
