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Escape from Vichy
Eric T. Jennings
其他書名
The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
出版Harvard University Press, 2018-03-09
主題History / Europe / FranceHistory / Military / World War IIHistory / Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralHistory / Holocaust
ISBN06749833869780674983380
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TkRMDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 tiesÑwith one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from Vichy recounts this flight from the refugeesÕ perspectives, using novels, unpublished diaries, archives, memoirs, artwork, and other materials to explore the unlikely encounters that fueled an anti-fascist artistic and intellectual movement.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 LŽvi-Strauss, and the Surrealist AndrŽ Breton met Negritude thinkers RenŽ MŽnil and AimŽ and Suzanne CŽsaire. 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 WashingtonÕs fears that wolves might be posing in sheepÕs clothing.