Teaching Haiti

Strategies for Creating New Narratives

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Approaching Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies courses.Portraying Haiti not as “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere” but as a nation with a multifaceted culture that plays an important part on the world’s stage, this volume offers valuable lessons about Haiti’s past and present related to immigration, migration, locality, and globality. The essays remind us that these themes are increasingly relevant in an era in which teachers are often called to address neoliberalist views and practices and isolationist politics.Contributors:Cécile Accilien | Jessica Adams | Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken | Anne M. François | Régine Michelle Jean-Charles | Elizabeth Langley | Valérie K. Orlando | Agnès Peysson-Zeiss | John D. Ribó | Joubert Satyre | Darren Staloff | Bonnie Thomas | Don E. Walicek | Sophie Watt

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:University Press of Florida
ISBN:9781683403999

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Cécile Accilien, professor and chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Kennesaw State University, is the author of Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures. Valérie K. Orlando, professor of French and Francophone literatures at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the author of The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950–1979 and New African Cinema.

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A timely effort to overcome stereotypes and decolonize knowledge. . . . This unparalleled contribution inserts seldom-heard Haitian voices and a much-needed postcolonial perspective into scholarly and personal narratives of Haiti. . . . Essential." —Choice

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List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAyiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and CultureCécile Accilien and Valérie K. OrlandoI. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the ClassroomRégine Jean-Charles2. Teaching Haiti Through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, écrivain engageBonnie Thomas3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouché's Bouqui au paradisJoubert Satyre4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and ReligionCécile Accilien5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti's Creole LanguageDon E. WalicekII. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course ModulesDarren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Global Neo-Imperial Culture and PracticesSophie Watt8. Peck's Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of AidAgnès Peysson-ZeissIII. Teaching About Haiti in American Studies, Latin American Studies, and General Studies Contexts9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies CourseElizabeth Langley10. Race and Culture on the Thrift Store Shift: Teaching About Haiti Inside and Outside the AcademyJessica Adams11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola's BorderlandsJohn Ribó12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant ExperiencesAnne M. FrançoisIndexContributors