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from the refugees’ perspectives, using novels, unpublished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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