self-exile meaning: definition, quotations

self-exile

noun

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).2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in Exile - Volume 1, page 116:
Indeed, in looking to Pound, Eliot and Stein, self-exiles all, he looks more to London and Paris than across the ocean.2011, Scott Lyall -, Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, page 137:

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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;2019, Katharina P. Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, Annette Seegers, Diplomacy and Borderlands:

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.2000, Laurence L. Bongie, Sade: A Biographical Essay, page 212:
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.2001, Anthony J. LaVopa, Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799, page 298:

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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.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:
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.2009, John Neubauer, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe:

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.1998, Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang, The Rice Sprout Song, page xi:
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.2005, Carolyn A. Becker, Domingo A. Mercante: A Democrat in the Shadow of Perón and Evita:

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Such an imposed isolation leads her to live in a cold and affectionless environment of self-exile and alienation.2016, Kaptan Singh, Women in Exile and Alienation, page 78:

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.2008, John T Hamilton, Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language, page 91:
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.2011, Sarah Beckwith, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness, page 9:

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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.2017, John Martis, Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality, page 22:

verb

To go into self-exile.

The agreement provided that Aguinaldo and his officers and men would self-exile abroad; Primo de Rivera will pay the rebels ₱800,000.00 in three installments until all the rebel soldiers would have surrendered; amnesty would be given to all those who would surrender; and an additional ₱900,000.00 would be paid by the Spanish government to the Filipino civilians and their families who were affected by the conflict.2008, Cecilio D. Duka, Struggle for Freedom, page 154:
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).2010, Amadou Sambou, African Rural Darkness, page 60:

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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.2015, David Kalat, The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: