Mr. O'Brien expects to mine his personal dislocation for comedy.
Jia tells stories of frustrated youth and soulless development, political oppression and personal dislocation; he's a tender and empathetic storyteller and a master symbolist, a documenter of harsh social circumstances and an ironic aesthete, a romantic idealist and a blunt teller of truths.
She experienced, in those moments, the gaps in her own story – birth parents who had put her up for adoption at three weeks of age; another kind of personal dislocation, a lost cultural connection, an all too common story in Indigenous Australia.
Talented employees who lose their jobs in the transition, after some admittedly painful personal dislocation, can find jobs designing and building things people want and value.
Jonathan Cape; £16.99 A personal story of dislocation by a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist.
Knowing that González is a Cuban exile and that much of her earlier work referred to her personal history of dislocation reinforces the point.
Khan-Din's script describes a personal sense of dislocation and a struggle for identity in the face of a father determined to remind him that he is Pakistani.
He was most well known for his thesis about "future shock" -- the extraordinary personal and societal dislocation that results when so many things change so much more rapidly than ever before.
Author Ken Emerson also sees a connection to that quintessential American songwriter, with the Taylor song resembling Foster's "Sitting By My Own Cabin Door" in its sense of longing for home amid personal and contextual dislocation.
