Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat

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Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring diasporic categories and postcolonial themes such as gender constructs, cultural nationalism, cultural and communal identity, and moves to investigate Danticat’s human rights activism, the immigrant experience, the relationship between the particular and the universal, and the violence of hegemony and imperialism in relationship with society, family, and community. The Editors of the collection have carefully compiled works that show how Danticat’s writings may help in building more compassionate and relational human communities that are grounded on the imperative of human dignity, respect, inclusion, and peace. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Edwidge Danticat in a Global Classroom and Transnational Context: Rethinking Pedagogy, Transcultural Community, and Engaged Learning PART I: Critical Literary, Historical Narrative, and Transformative Pedagogy 1 From Duvalierism to Dechoukaj in The Dew Breaker 2 “We are the Haitian Think Tank”: Cultivating Perspectives in Haitian Youth: Using Danticat’s Krik? Krak! 3 Teaching Genre as Method in The Dew Breaker 4 StoryCorps: Incorporating Local Oral History Collections in the Classroom PART II: Gender Alliance, Pedagogy, and Engaged Learning 5 (Re) Writing the Black Female Body or Cleansing Her Soul: Narratives of Generational Traumas and Healing in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory 6 Female Mentorship in Krik? Krak! Recovering History through the Silent Canvas PART III: The Global Classroom, Transnational Community, and Cross-Cultural Communication 7 Out of the Classroom and Into the Community 8 Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying and The Farming of Bones: Experiences from a Class in Ghana 9 Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak! Through Global Learning Classrooms 10 A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I’m Dying: Background, History, and Context: Part A 11 A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I’m Dying: Criticisms, Thematic Analysis, & An Eight-Week Teaching Model: Part B PART IV: Citizen-Artist and Teaching as Activism 12 Edwidge Danticat’s “Citizen-Artist Curriculum with Columbia College Freshmen” 13 The Exigency of the Floating Homeland and Engaging Postnationalisms in the Classroom: Approaches to Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work 14 Creating Cultural Sensitivity in the Writing Classroom with Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously 15 When the Periphery Comes to the Center: From Writing Across the Curriculum to Public Sphere Pedagogy List of Contributors Index