Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives - Paperback

by Cécile Accilien (Editor), Valérie K. Orlando (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Cécile
Accilien, professor
of African and African diaspora studies in the Interdisciplinary Studies
Department at Kennesaw State University, is the author of Bay Lodyans: Haitian
Popular Film Culture.
Valérie K. Orlando, professor of French and Francophone literatures at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the author of The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979, and New African Cinema.