“Exiled at home”: vicissitudes of a different banishment

Abstract

In this article I propose an approach to the concept of exile at home. The expression is clearly an oxymoron and attempts to shed some light on a very common experience in different parts of the world nowadays: losing the earth under the feet. Deriving from heteronomous ethics, with the help of poetry, this notion attempts to understand some of the components of this experience in which denial of alterity — typical of a colonial mentality in its neoliberal stage — opens the gate for “minorities” territory expropriation. This is done with the political form of an "excluding-inclusion" fostered by the Nation-State. Resistance to this attack in this case, takes the form of heteronomous ethics, poetic expression, and theological-political thought that depict other faces of exile.