Teaching Haiti : strategies for creating new narratives / edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Accilien, Cécile, 1973- editor.

Orlando, Valérie, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

History.

Haiti--Social life and customs--History.

Haiti.

Haiti--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. TEACHING ABOUT HAITIAN ART, LITERATURE, AND LANGUAGE

1. Getting around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom / Regine Jean-Charles

2. Teaching Haiti through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, ecrivain engage / Bonnie Thomas

3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouche's Bouqui au Paradis / Joubert Satyre

4. Engaging Haiti through Art and Religion / Cecile 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 / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Frances Neocolonial Culture and Practices / Sophie Watt

8. Pecks Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of Aid / Agnes 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 Hispaniolas Borderlands / John Ribo

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching Haiti

ISBN:

9781683402107

1683402103

OCLC:

1204259157