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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Jennings, Eric Thomas (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Escape from Vichy [Texte imprimé] : the refugee exodus to the French Caribbean / Eric T. Jennings
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University press, 2018
Description matérielle : 308 pages : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This book follows the wartime escape of thousands of European refugees to Martinique, and the myriad encounters that resulted. This previously untold story speaks to many contemporary concerns, including migration, cultural trends, resistance, encounter, ethnicity and identity, migration and diaspora. The roughly five thousand refugees at the heart of this book, who streamed from Marseille to Martinique in 1940-41 comprised Spanish Republicans, anti-Nazi Germans, Jews, and political and intellectual dissidents of various stripes. Most were wanted by the Nazis. Their desperate quest to reach the Western Hemisphere led them into the limbo of Vichy-controlled Martinique, which for visa related reasons proved easier to reach than New York. There, many forged lasting ties, amongst each other, but also with leading local dissidents, be they Gaullists or young thinkers like the Césaires, articulating their own vision of Blackness at this very time. The book explores the intellectual and artistic convergences that this encounter elicited between Negritude and Surrealism, while bringing to life the particular context of wartime Martinique.
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Réfugiés -- Martinique
Vie artistique -- Martinique -- 1900-1945
Politique et gouvernement -- France -- 1940-1945
Martinique -- Vie intellectuelle -- 1900-1945
Numéros : ISBN 9780674983380. - ISBN 0674983386
Notice n° :
FRBNF45476510
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Undesirables ; Opening the Martinique corridor ; Understanding the Martinique route ; The crossings ; Wartime Martinique ; Snake charmers in a viper's nest ; Surrealism meets Negritude ; The window closes.
