self-exile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-exiles
Senses: examples: text: 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).
ref: 2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in Exile - Volume 1, page 116:
text: Indeed, in looking to Pound, Eliot and Stein, self-exiles all, he looks more to London and Paris than across the ocean.
ref: 2011, Scott Lyall -, Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, page 137:
text: Camara looked at written works from Guinean exiles, self-exiles, and political prisoners, and listed several types of these opponents of the ruling Parti Démocratique de Guinée (PDG), namely people leaving after having committed economic and financial crimes against the state;
ref: 2019, Katharina P. Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, Annette Seegers, Diplomacy and Borderlands:
glosses: A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.
examples: text: Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class.
ref: 2000, Laurence L. Bongie, Sade: A Biographical Essay, page 212:
text: 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.
ref: 2001, Anthony J. LaVopa, Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799, page 298:
text: Through the twentieth century we—the 'we' of the 'civilized world'—have often associated the exile or expulsion of artists with totalitarian regimes; likewise we regarded self-exile, voluntary exile in other words, as tarnishing the reputation of the abandoned country rather than that of the courageous artist who fled repression and censorship.
ref: 2007, Ralph J. Hexter, “Ovid and the Medieval Exilic Imaginary,”, in Jan Felix Gaertner, editor, Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond, page 209:
text: Like him, we ask when political suppression becomes so unbearable that self-exile remains the only self-defense, and we believe, like him, that no hard-and-fast rules can be established for this, partly because we usually have only the evidence given by the exiled person, which is subjectively experienced and may change with time.
ref: 2009, John Neubauer, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe:
glosses: The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1998, Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang, The Rice Sprout Song, page xi:
text: He resolved that this would be his last appearance on the political stage. Following his return to Buenos Aires, Mercante entered what his friend Rudolfo Decker would later describe as a period of “self-exile,” a self-imposed abstention from politics that would last until his death.
ref: 2005, Carolyn A. Becker, Domingo A. Mercante: A Democrat in the Shadow of Perón and Evita:
text: Such an imposed isolation leads her to live in a cold and affectionless environment of self-exile and alienation.
ref: 2016, Kaptan Singh, Women in Exile and Alienation, page 78:
glosses: Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.
examples: text: The autobiographical gesture, writing the word “I,” is a move into self-exile or even self-extinction.
ref: 2008, John T Hamilton, Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language, page 91:
text: 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.
ref: 2011, Sarah Beckwith, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness, page 9:
text: 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.
ref: 2017, John Martis, Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality, page 22:
glosses: A separation or alienation from ones inner self.