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
Credits
Index