Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat: (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Edwidge Danticat in a Global Classroom and Transnational Context Part I. Critical Literary, Historical Narrative, and Transformative Pedagogy Chapter 1. From Duvalierism to Dechoukal in The Dew Breaker: The Frame of Evil Chapter 2. "We are the Haitian Think Tank" Chapter 3. Genre Theory and Teaching the Work of Edwidge Danticat Chapter 4. StoryCorps: Incorporating Local Oral History Collections in the Classroom Part II. Gender Alliance, Pedagogy, and Engaged Learning Chapter 5. (Re) Writing the Black Female Body or Cleansing Body or Cleansing Her Soul Chapter 6. Teaching Krik? Krak! Female Mentorship Chapter 7. Teaching Inclusiveness & Understanding: Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory Part III. The Global Classroom, Transnational Community, and Cross-Cultural Communication Chapter 8. Teaching through Resistance: Reading Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying in American Classrooms Chapter 9. Brother, I’m Dying as a Community Text Chapter 10. Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying and The Farming of Bones Chapter 11. Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak! Through Global Learning Classrooms Part IV. Citizen-Artist and Teaching as Activism Chapter 12. Citizen-Artist and the Public Sphere Chapter 13. Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work Chapter 14. Dangerous Creations: College Writing Using Danticat’s Create Dangerously as a Force for Activism in the World Chapter 15. When the Periphery Comes to the Center: From Writing Across the Curriculum to Public Sphere Pedagogy Chapter 16. Human Suffering and Social Evil, and the Possibility of Hope and Peace in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker and The Farming of Bones

About the Author :
Celucien L. Joseph is an Associate Professor of English at Indian River State College Suchismita Banerjee is an English professor at Indian River State College Marvin E. Hobson is an Associate Professor of English at Indian River State College Danny M. Hoey Jr. is an Associate Professor of English at Indian River State College