Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Series

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.

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

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