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exile
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exile
someone (from something) (to something) to force someone to leave something or some place and go to something or some place, often as a punishment for political reasons. The government exiled him from his hometown to an island off the coast of South America. They exiled Gerald to another country.


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Although I suspect some readers will be bothered by D'Addario's decision not to provide a concrete definition or employ a preexisting model of the experience of exile, I found his approach of drawing on twenty- and twenty-first-century articulations of the exilic experience to be an effective, flexible, and eloquent way of communicating the specific components of the experience without reducing it to a single, monolithic construct.
The directions of his thoughts include exilic intellectuals, the creative crisis of the subject, and empire without hegemony.
After exploring race, ethnicity, othering, and the formation of identity, he examines in detail the Hebrew root Cush in tenth-to-eighth-century Hebrew literature, in seventh-century exilic literature, and in post-exilic Hebrew literature.
 
 
 
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