Classic Essay: 'A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Emigrés' by Mary McCarthy, novelist, essayist, intellectual | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
First let me say what I think these terms signify in common speech. An expatriate is different from an exile. In early use an exile was a banished man, a wanderer or roamer: exsul. “For I must to the greenwood go, alone, a banished man.” In ancient Greek times, a man with a price on …