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Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean by Jenning HB+=
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- Condition
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- 2018-03-09
- ISBN
- 9780674983380
- EAN
- 9780674983380
- Book Title
- Escape from Vichy : the Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / France
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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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 Escape from Vichy recounts this flight from the refugees' perspectives, using novels, unpublished diaries, archives, memoirs, artwork, and other materials to explore the unlikely encounters that fueled an anti-fascist artistic and intellectual movement.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 Lévi-Strauss, and the Surrealist André Breton met Negritude thinkers René Ménil and Aimé and Suzanne Césaire. 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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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674983386
ISBN-13
9780674983380
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240097883
Product Key Features
Book Title
Escape from Vichy : the Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / France
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D809.M435j46 2018
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An excellent book. Using a wide array of sources, Jennings vividly describes a short-lived but important episode in the refugee experience during World War II--the desperate attempts of those who went to Marseille in order to emigrate to the French Caribbean. He examines the cultural creativity that emerged as a result of the encounter between the refugees, many of whom were Surrealists, and native black artists and intellectuals on Martinique, especially Aim and Suzanne Csaire, the founders of the 'negritude' movement., Jennings tells the little-known story of the escape route that took some thousands of Jews, Spanish republicans, and others menaced by Nazi Germany from Marseille to France's Caribbean colony of Martinique. Many of those saved in this way from the clutches of Nazism were prominent artists and intellectuals, some of whom--Claude Levi-Strauss, Andr Breton, Wilfredo Lam--enjoyed, or would enjoy, international renown. We learn about Martinique's complex relations with the United States, which feared that many of the refugees destined for the island were potential fifth columnists eager to attack Americans from within. And it is fascinating to see how the connection between negritude and surrealism played out in Martinique., Jennings tells the little-known story of the escape route that took some thousands of Jews, Spanish republicans, and others menaced by Nazi Germany from Marseille to France's Caribbean colony of Martinique. Many of those saved in this way from the clutches of Nazism were prominent artists and intellectuals, some of whom--Claude Levi-Strauss, André Breton, Wilfredo Lam--enjoyed, or would enjoy, international renown. We learn about Martinique's complex relations with the United States, which feared that many of the refugees destined for the island were potential fifth columnists eager to attack Americans from within. And it is fascinating to see how the connection between negritude and surrealism played out in Martinique., A riveting, heart-wrenching story of exile, intellectual cross-fertilization, and political awakening among refugees from Hitler's Europe who escaped together to Martinique. Jennings has written a brilliant new chapter in the transatlantic history of negritude, anti-colonialism, and anti-racism., An excellent book. Using a wide array of sources, Jennings vividly describes a short-lived but important episode in the refugee experience during World War II--the desperate attempts of those who went to Marseille in order to emigrate to the French Caribbean. He examines the cultural creativity that emerged as a result of the encounter between the refugees, many of whom were Surrealists, and native black artists and intellectuals on Martinique, especially Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, the founders of the 'negritude' movement.
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-036661
Dewey Decimal
940.53/1450972982
Dewey Edition
23
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