page_title: Exile
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Exile / In popular culture / Art
caption_attribution_description: Seghers, Anna: Das siebte Kreuz. Roman aus Hitlerdeutschland. Mexiko [Stadt]: El Libro Libre 1942, 468 Seiten + 3 Seiten Verlagsanzeigen + 1 Seite Druckvermerk. Erstdruck (Wilpert/Gühring² 13)
context_page_description: To be in exile means to be away from one's home, while either being explicitly refused permission to return or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return.
  In Roman law, exsilium denoted both voluntary exile and banishment as a capital punishment alternative to death. Deportation was forced exile, and entailed the lifelong loss of citizenship and property. Relegation was a milder form of deportation, which preserved the subject's citizenship and property.
  The term diaspora describes group exile, both voluntary and forced. "Government in exile" describes a government of a country that has relocated and argues its legitimacy from outside that country. Voluntary exile is often depicted as a form of protest by the person who claims it, to avoid persecution and prosecution, an act of shame or repentance, or isolating oneself to be able to devote time to a particular pursuit.
  Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."
context_section_description: After Medea was abandoned by Jason and had become a murderess out of revenge, she fled to Athens and married king Aigeus there, and became the stepmother of the hero Theseus. Due to a conflict with him, she must leave the Polis and go away into exile. John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), the English Pre-Raphaelite painter’s famous picture Jason and Medea shows a key moment before, when Medea tries to poison Theseus.
caption: Cover of Anna Seghers’ Das siebte Kreuz
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