What does self-exile mean?
Self-exile means (countable) A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community..
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(countable) 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.
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.
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Self-exile means (countable) A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community..
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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).
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