René Ménil [SEP] occupation
René Ménil
René Ménil (1907, Gros-Morne, Martinique – 29 August 2004) was a French surrealist writer and philosopher who lived on the island of Martinique.
Born and raised on the island of Martinique, Ménil was one of several of the island's natives who studied in France and returned to influence the independence movement with the ideas of Marxism, and Surrealism. He was involved in helping to publish a literary journal in 1932 with Étienne Léro called "Légitime Défense." He also began the "Antillanité
cultural configuration to which, in time, the name "Antillanité" came to be given.
It seems to have been René Ménil, a former collaborator of Aimé Césaire, one of the principal champions of the Négritude movement, who, in an article entitled "Problèmes d'une culture antillaise" first clearly formulated the idea of a West Indian specificity ("spécificité antillaise") that would enjoy such success in the years that followed. 
French West Indian culture, according to Ménil, is: "neither African nor Chinese