ABSTRACT
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
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|80 pages
Critical Literary, Historical Narrative, and Transformative Pedagogy
chapter 2|26 pages
“We are the Haitian Think Tank”
part II|34 pages
Gender Alliance, Pedagogy, and Engaged Learning
chapter 5|15 pages
(Re) Writing the Black Female Body or Cleansing Her Soul
part III|138 pages
The Global Classroom, Transnational Community, and Cross-Cultural Communication
chapter 8|28 pages
Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying and The Farming of Bones
chapter 10|37 pages
A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I’m Dying
chapter 11|46 pages
A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I’m Dying
part IV|96 pages
Citizen-Artist and Teaching as Activism