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Teaching Haiti

Name: Teaching Haiti
Author: Cécile Accilien
ISBN: 9781683403999

Strategies for Creating New Narratives

Edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando

Published by: University of Florida Press

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.

270 Pages6.00 × 9.0011 b/w illus., 17 tables, notes, bibliography, index

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Approaching Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective

This 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.

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.

“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

“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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Acknowledgments

Ayiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and Culture
Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando

Part I. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language

Chapter 1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom
Régine Jean-Charles

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

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

Chapter 4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and Religion
Cécile Accilien

Chapter 5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti’s Creole Language
Don E. Walicek

Part II. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics

Chapter 6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course Modules
Darren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

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

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

Agnès Peysson-Zeiss

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

Chapter 9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies Course
Elizabeth Langley

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

Chapter 11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola’s Borderlands
John Ribó

Chapter 12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant Experiences
Anne M. François

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Strategies for Creating New Narratives

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