Jean price mars biography definition
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Jean Price-Mars facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Jean Price-Mars | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship | |
| In office 14 December – 9 February | |
| President | Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis |
| Preceded by | Joseph D. Charles [ht] |
| Succeeded by | Evremont Carrié [ht] |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs, Worship and Education | |
| In office 19 August – 10 April | |
| President | Dumarsais Estimé |
| Preceded by | Antoine Levelt [fr](Foreign Affairs and Worship) Daniel Fignolé (Education) |
| Succeeded by | Edmée Manigat (Foreign Affairs and Worship) Emile Saint-Lot (Education) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | ()October 15, Grande-Rivière-du-Nord |
| Died | March 1, () (aged 92) Pétion-Ville |
Jean Price-Mars (15 October – 1 March ) was a Haitian doctor, teacher, politician, diplomat, writer, and ethnographer. Price-Mars served as secretary of the Haitian legation in Washington, D.C. () and as chargé d'affaires in Paris (–), during the initial years of the United
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Jean Price-Mars
Haitian doctor, politician and writer (–)
Jean Price-Mars (15 October – 1 March ) was a Haitianmedical doctor, teacher, politician, diplomat, writer, and ethnographer.[1] Price-Mars served as secretary of the Haitian legation in Washington, D.C. () and as chargé d'affaires in Paris (–), during the initial years of the United States occupation of Haiti.
In , Price-Mars completed medical studies which he had given up for lack of a scholarship.[1]
After withdrawing as a candidate for the presidency of Haiti in favor of Stenio Vincent in , Price-Mars led Senate opposition to the new president; he was forced out of politics. In , Price-Mars was again elected to the Senate. He was secretary of state for external relations in and, later, ambassador to the Dominican Republic. In his eighties, he continued service as Haitian ambassador at the United Nations and ambassador to France.
Négritude movement
[edit]Price-Mars championed Négritude
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"Price-Mars, the Peasants and the Elites" bygd Island Luminous Editorial Board
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Jean Price-Mars () was a medical doctor, teacher, and statesman. However, he is most remembered as a writer who contributed to the Indigéniste movement. Indigénisme, a literary movement, was launched in the late s in direkt response to the United States occupation of Haiti. The movement called for the creation of an "indigenous" Haitian literature. But it was Price-Mars’s publication of Ainsi parla l’oncle (So Spoke the Uncle) that defined the movement.
Ainsi parla l'oncle accused Haitian authors and the elite of collective bovaryism, meaning they saw themselves as someone other than they were. Haitian literature mimicked French literature and had yet to find its "indigenous" Haitian soul. Price-Mars believed tha