Exile describes an attitude toward power, not physical displacement

Evidence

This exilic condition does not refer to an actual separation from a homeland (Adorno from Germany, Ahmad from Pakistan, Said from Palestine) but to a critical angle on power and a defiant character ill at ease with any communal claim on his or her loyalty. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 209

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Said’s ‘exilic’ as an epistemological stance rather than a literal geographical state.
• XREF: connects to: Chosen self-exile and vagrancy, unlike principled exile, enable celebratory uprootedness — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 627

Related

• Exile and diaspora describe displacement, not wealthy migrants anywhere abroad (similarity 0.80)
• Exile names state-imposed impossibility, not voluntary professional relocation. (similarity 0.79)
• Exile means state coercion and fear, not professional convenience (similarity 0.78)