La créolité ou le somnambulisme républicain1 à partir de l’œuvre de Raphaël Confiant

Confronting the promises and impasses of the concept of Créolité in two novels by the Martinican writer Raphaël Confiant (1951-), Le Nègre et l’Amiral (1988) and L’Hôtel du Bon Plaisir (2009), written twenty years apart, this article highlights how these two texts deconstruct, reconstruct and co-construct multiple creole identities, both local and global, at the limits of the universal values promoted – and promised – by the Western republican model. This textual space, where the West ends and, paradoxically, renews itself, echoes pragmatism of the law, which, far from the republican myths set in stone, acknowledges the diversity of reality.