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After Identity:

Mennonite Writing in North America

ISBN-13: 9780271070384
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Robert Zacharias
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Local release date: 14/11/2016
Format: Paperback 256 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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An interdisciplinary reappraisal of the field of Mennonite writing in Canada and the United States. Essays explore the unique configuration of religious and ethnic cultural difference.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction After Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North America

Robert Zacharias

Part 1 Reframing Identity

Chapter 1 The Autoethnographic Announcement and the Story

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Chapter 2 A Mennonite Fin de Siècle: Exploring Identity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Royden Loewen

Chapter 3 Mennonite Transgressive Literature

Ervin Beck

Chapter 4 Double Identity: Covering the Peace Shall Destroy Many Project

Paul Tiessen

Chapter 5 After Ethnicity: Gender, Voice, and an Ethic of Care in the Work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Ann Hostetler

Chapter 6 The Mennonite Thing: Identity for a Post-Identity Age

Robert Zacharias

Part 2 Expanding Identity

Chapter 7 In Praise of Hybridity: Reflections from Southwestern Manitoba

Di Brandt

Chapter 8 Queering Mennonite Literature

Daniel Shank Cruz

Chapter 9 Toward a Poetics of Identity

Jeff Gundy

Chapter 10 Question, Answer

Jesse Nathan

Chapter 11 “Is Menno in There?” The Case of “The Man Who Invented Himself”

Magdalene Redekop

Chapter 12 After Identity: Liberating the Mennonite Literary Text

Hildi Froese Tiessen

List of Contributors

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Index

“A vital book that not only expresses the importance of finding alternative reading practices for Mennonite literature, but also presents various compelling and convincing ways to locate those reading practices.”

—Jesse Hutchison, Biography

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