Meaning of self-exile | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.
   countable
2. The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.
   uncountable
3. Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.
   uncountable
4. A separation or alienation from ones inner self.
   uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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;”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Such an imposed isolation leads her to live in a cold and affectionless environment of self-exile and alienation.”

“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.”

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