self-exile

Definitions

1. 1

   A voluntary exile

   A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.

   • One source for the views of certain of these self-exiles is the newsletter of the Union of American Exiles, American Exile in Canada, published in Toronto for at least two years (1968 and 1969).
   • Indeed, in looking to Pound, Eliot and Stein, self-exiles all, he looks more to London and Paris than across the ocean.
2. 2

   The state of voluntary exile

   The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.

   • Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class.
   • He did not return to his "great idea" until the summer of 1795, when his self-exile in Osmannstadt freed him from the day-to-day demands of lecturing and allowed him to devote several months to preparing a new course on natural law.
3. 3

   Isolation from the world

   Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.

   • Chang's self-exile, however, aroused rather than thwarted her readers' desire; and they consumed anecdotes and hearsay about her life as eagerly as they did any of her works.
   • Such an imposed isolation leads her to live in a cold and affectionless environment of self-exile and alienation.
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      A separation or alienation from ones inner self.

      • The autobiographical gesture, writing the word “I,” is a move into self-exile or even self-extinction.
      • Part of the crisis and difficulty in this understanding is that we lose sense of ourselves and our communities together, in one and the same movement of self-exile from shared words and shared expressions.
      • Because of the entailment of an existent “home,” corollary to any declaration of exile, “self-exile,” at best, in establishing nonlocation, establishes simultaneously location (or relocation) of the subject thus dislocated.
   2. 5

      To go into self-exile.

      • If noticed, some will self-exile and accuse the government wrongfully without adequate reasons and are never extradited to face the justice against the crime they have committed and will be seen as African self-exiles (ASE).
      • How odd that Mabuse scampers off to South America to establish his new life, where the Nazis would self-exile themselves at the end of the war.

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