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Jul 17, 2022 13:16
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Spanish term

insilio

Spanish to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
This is from a text about an art show held in Venezuela in 2001. The essay closes:

Y así, entre ruinas modernas y el revival de la abstracción geométrica, que también marcó la producción del arte venezolano del primer tramo del nuevo milenio, comenzamos a registrar, cuadro a cuadro, la prolongada implosión de un país, cuyos fragmentos ahora se esparcen tanto dentro como fuera de sus fronteras, en múltiples metrópolis, para producir los nuevos relatos de la Venezuela del exilio y del insilio.

I think it refers to some sort of exile within the country, but I am not sure there is a term for that in English that creates the nifty parallel with exilio in the Spanish original-
Thanks
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 internal exile
4 and from being isolated/that have evolved from feelings associated with isolation
3 +1 insile
3 isolation/beleaguerment
References
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Discussion

Barbara Cochran, MFA Jul 17, 2022:
Cervantes' Don Quijote de La Mancha That would be the most important example of "prison literature", IMO.
Lisa Rosengard Jul 17, 2022:
I found that there's no such word as 'insile' in the normal dictionary, hence why 'internal exile' is considered as a definition. It seems to be a response to a social phenomenon such as expatriation, immigration, persecution and other forms of hardship among social groups. Indeed in one of the references (Repression, Exile and Democracy, Uruguayan Culture, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1993): "Insile took a variety of forms - active resistance, or mere survival pending a new awakening. The literature of insile encompasses on extraordinary groups of texts by political prisoners, who, while under detention, began writing what has become 'prison literature'."

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internal exile


university of california - eScholarship
https://escholarship.org › content
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a revolutionary recalibration of insilio or “internal exile” of the individual, ... Lobsang Espinoza, who studies language and semiotics Retrieved from ...

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The Experience of exilio and insilio in reshaping Uruguayan ...
https://researchers.mq.edu.au › publications › the-exper...
by E Valverde · 2001 · Cited by 3 — Denationalization involved actual flight from the country (exilio) or retreat into private worlds (insilio or internal exile). The oppressive coercion of ...

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Repression, Exile, and Democracy - Project MUSE
https://muse.jhu.edu › book
by LB Popkin · 1992 · Cited by 59 — Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture; Saul Sosnowski and Louise ... exile and "insilio" (internal exile), torture, and death.

Repression, Exile, and Democracy - Duke University Press
https://www.dukeupress.edu › repression-exile-and-dem...
... analyzing how varying cultural expressions have been affected by conditions of censorship, exile and "insilio" (internal exile), torture, and death.

in the work of alejandra pizarnik - jstor
https://www.jstor.org › stable
by B Bollig · 2009 · Cited by 4 — Exile and Not-Belonging in Alexandra Pizarnik. What is an Internal Exile? Pizarnik and 'insilio'. The term exilio' is found as the title of a poem from the ...

Escrituras seudónimas, lacerías clandestinas. El insilio de ...
https://scielo.conicyt.cl › scielo
This paper seeks to investigate how the effects of internal exile materialized in the actor and communist militant Rubén Sotoconil.

Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture
https://books.google.co.uk › books
Saúl Sosnowski, ‎Louise B. Popkin · 1993 · ‎Social Science
... how varying cultural expressions have been affected by conditions of censorship , exile and " insilio " ( internal exile ) , torture , and death .

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if you prefer you can always put


"insilio" (internal exile)
Peer comment(s):
agree patinba
3 hrs
Thank you!
agree Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
7 hrs
Gracias!
neutral Althea Draper : It's not quite the "nifty parallel" requested by the asker - more of an explanation than a translation.
16 hrs
That is for the asker to decide.
agree Pablo Cruz
2 days 5 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
33 mins

and from being isolated/that have evolved from feelings associated with isolation

A couple of options.
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2 hrs

isolation/beleaguerment

keeping it simple
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+1
3 hrs

insile

"The very coining of the term insile, analagous to exile, as a means of pointing to similarities between Uruguayans opposed to the regime - and thus marginalized - within the country and their counterparts abroad tended to diminish the importance of national borders as a means of distinguishing between attitudes towards the dictatorship. Insile took a variety of forms - active resistance , sonorous silence , or mere survival pending a new awakening."
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Repression_Exile_and_...

Although it's usually used to refer to situations in South America, it's also used quite a bit to talk about the political situation in South Africa.
"So the legacy of exile in political leadership culture of the ANC is what you cannot deny. This legacy overpowers the creative role of insile leadership and exile leadership was put ahead of insiles in the 1991 ANC conference inside South Africa."
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CJU3du...

A call for papers (University of Virginia)
"Additional topics could include, but are not limited to:
--World imperialisms and 1898
--post-socialism and leftist melancholy
--Black radicalism in international contexts
--The aesthetics of exile and/ or insile
--migration, slavery and contracted labor
--speculative geographies in the Global South"
https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/call-papers-cuba-...

"The webinar, which is part of the presentation of number 11 and 12 of the review “Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives” entitled “Exile and internal exile in Latin America,Vol. I, El exilio judío” and “Exile and internal exile in Latin America Vol. II Exilio-ínsilio: una mirada literaria y artistic”, edited by Professor Giovanna Campani, Professor Martha L. Canfield, Dr. Judy Kreith and Dr. Carmelo Spadola, focuses on the phenomenon of exile and insile of Jews who moved from Europe to Latin America to escape from the racial laws."
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ccselap/article/vie...
Peer comment(s):
neutral liz askew : very few instances of this, I would avoid it, as you last ref states "Exile and internal exile....."
5 hrs
I beg to differ. Here is a search for eg insile and Venezuela, there are many more for other countries too. https://www.google.com/search?q="insile" venezuela&oq="insil...
agree slothm : I do think that this is the birth of a new word in dire need. You have my thumbs up Althea.
2 days 2 hrs
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Reference comments

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Reference:

see

http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0...

3. El insilio, la otra cara del exilio
El insilio como concepto es un término tomado de la psicología.
Lobsang Espinoza (2017) Psicoterapeuta del lenguaje y Semiólogo, en
una entrevista al Diario El Comercio define este término de la siguiente
manera: «El insilio es lo contrario al exilio; es decir, una forma de irse sin
Osservatorio europeo e internazionale
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anno IX, n. 1, 2019
data di pubblicazione: 20 novembre 2019
Democrazia e Sicurezza – Democracy and Security Review
ISSN: 2239-804X
moverse del sitio físico, o de quedarse sin en realidad estar. Es el encier‐
ro/destierro dentro de uno mismo»3.
Pero esta palabra, realmente no ha sido de uso corriente, incluso ha
estado invisibilizada. El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, aun
no la registra, No obstante, hay quienes la han explicado a través de la
poesía, como el escritor venezolano Ricardo Ramírez Requena, quien en
su obra Maneras de irse (2014)4 describe perfectamente, ese estado de
enajenación que experimentan los ciudadanos venezolanos que a pesar
de la dictadura, se quedan en el país


El insilio entonces, no es un estado anímico que viene de gratis, es
como lo señala José M. Naharro, el insilio, es un encierro psicológico o
viaje interno, inducido por el propio orden político y por supuesto, el
económico, porque ese sistema, amenaza, cierra las puertas y cercena las
libertades individuales de los ciudadanos, en definitiva, es un compor‐
tamiento del miedo. El miedo es un dispositivo del poder que asegura,
la sumisión de los ciudadanos. Pero esta percepción no es nueva, ya
Hobbes, en el siglo XVIII, planteaba el miedo como una tecnología capaz
de hacerse someter «al poder soberano»
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