Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean - Couverture rigide

Jennings, Eric T.

 
9780674983380: Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
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ISBN 10 : 0674983386 ISBN 13 : 9780674983380
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential ties--with one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from Vichy recounts this flight from the refugees' perspectives, using novels, unpublished diaries, archives, memoirs, artwork, and other materials to explore the unlikely encounters that fueled an anti-fascist artistic and intellectual movement.

The refugees included Spanish Republicans, anti-Nazi Germans and Austrians, anti-fascist Italians, Jews from across Europe, and others fleeing violence and repression. They were met with hostility by the Vichy government and rejection by the nations where they hoped to settle. Martinique, however, provided a site propitious for creative ferment, where the revolutionary Victor Serge conversed with the anthropologist Claude L vi-Strauss, and the Surrealist Andr Breton met Negritude thinkers Ren M nil and Aim and Suzanne C saire. As Eric T. Jennings shows, these interactions gave rise to a rich current of thought celebrating blackness and rejecting racism.

What began as expulsion became a kind of rescue, cut short by Washington's fears that wolves might be posing in sheep's clothing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eric T. Jennings is Distinguished Professor in the History of France and the Francophonie at the University of Toronto.

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674983386
ISBN 13 
9780674983380
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
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