RAPHAEL CONFIANT

Documentary film footage of an interview with Martinican scholar Raphaël Confiant, a Creole language proponent. Filmed by Mo Creole staff. 

Confiant, Jean Bernabé and Patrick Chamoiseau are considered the founders of créolité, a literary movement first developed in the 1980s and given form in the publication Elogé de la Créolité (In Praise of Creoleness), in 1989, as a response to the perceived inadequacies of the négritude movement. 

Créolité, or "creoleness", is a neologism which attempts to describe the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the Antilles, and more specifically of the French Caribbean.

Video footage is original. Biographical description rendered from multiple sources.