Internal exile affects marginalized few, not majorities facing open oppression

Evidence

I would not describe the physicaI situation of those who suffer the oppression of an Other within their own country, such as the blacks in South Mrica, as internaI exile. Because the solution here is visible and the outcome determined; force alone can oppose this. InternaI exile strikes individuals living where solutions concerning the relationship of a cornmunity to its surroundings are not, or at least not yet, consented to by this community as a whole. These solutions, precariously outlined as decisions, are still the prerogative of only a few, who, as a result, are lTlarginalized. InternaI exile is the voyage out of this enclosure. It is a motionless and exac- erbated introduction to the thought of errantry. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 156

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glissant’s precise sense of ‘internal exile’ — a voyage that is motionless — qualifies it as available only to individuals, not collectives.
• XREF: connects to: The oppressed are inside the oppressive structure, not marginal to it. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 212; Minority status differed from statelessness because less fundamental rights were untouched — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 682

Broader Connections

• The oppressed are inside the oppressive structure, not marginal to it. #qualifies (0.85) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 212
• Minority status differed from statelessness because less fundamental rights were untouched #corroborates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 682