Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives

by Cécile Accilien (Editor), Valérie K. Orlando (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides guidance on teaching about Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, offering ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683403999
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	05/02/2023
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Cécile Accilien, professor of African and African diaspora studies in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Kennesaw State University, is the author of Bay Lodyans: Haitian Popular Film Culture. 


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.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Ayiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and Culture

Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando

I. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language

1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom

Régine Jean-Charles

2. Teaching Haiti Through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, écrivain engage

Bonnie Thomas

3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouché’s Bouqui au paradis

Joubert Satyre

4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and Religion

Cécile Accilien

5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti’s Creole Language

Don E. Walicek

II. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics

6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course Modules

Darren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Global Neo-Imperial Culture and Practices

Sophie Watt

8. Peck’s Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of Aid

Agnès Peysson-Zeiss

III. Teaching About Haiti in American Studies, Latin American Studies, and General Studies Contexts

9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies Course

Elizabeth Langley

10. Race and Culture on the Thrift Store Shift: Teaching About Haiti Inside and Outside the Academy

Jessica Adams

11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola’s Borderlands

John Ribó

12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant Experiences

Anne M. François

Index

Contributors

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Critical, informative, and forward-looking. An important and compelling volume that adds to the scholarship on Haiti while also providing valuable tools to responsibly engage Haiti in the classroom through sound pedagogical interventions.”—Claudine Michel, coeditor of Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher