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Writing from a Mennonite Life: Essays and Poems
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A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdor focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority.


Contents

Preface to the 2009 Edition

Preface and Acknowledgments

A Place to Begin

Mountains and Valleys

Tracking the Mullein, or Portrait of a Mennonite Muse

When the Stranger Is an Angel

Writing Home

Bringing Home the Work

Preacher’s Striptease

Bodies and Boundaries

The Witness a Body Bears

Work and Hope

Marilyn, H. S. Bender, and Me

The Gothic Tale of Lucy Hochstetler and the Temptation of Literary Authority

Conclusion

Writing like a Mennonite

Afterword

Notes


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