sentences:  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