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Queering Mennonite Literature

Name: Queering Mennonite Literature
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community

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By Daniel Shank Cruz
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 3, 2020
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Though the terms queer and Mennonite rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts these identities into conversation. In this volume, Daniel Shank Cruz brings this growing genre into a critical focus, bridging the gaps between queer theory, literary criticism, and Mennonite literature.

Cruz focuses his analysis on recent Mennonite-authored literary texts that espouse queer theoretical principles, including Christina Penner's Widows of Hamilton House, Wes Funk's Wes Side Story, and Sofia Samatar's Tender. These works argue for the existence of a queer Mennonite identity on the basis of shared values: a commitment to social justice, a rejection of binaries, the importance of creative approaches to conflict resolution, and the practice of mutual aid, especially in resisting oppression. Through his analysis, Cruz encourages those engaging with both Mennonite and queer literary criticism to explore the opportunity for conversation and overlap between the two fields.

By arguing for engagement between these two identities and highlighting the aspects of Mennonitism that are inherently queer, Cruz gives much-needed attention to an emerging subfield of Mennonite literature. This volume makes a new and important intervention into the fields of queer theory, literary studies, Mennonite studies, and religious studies.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Queering Mennonite Literature

1. Building a Queer Mennonite Archive

2. Searching for Selfhood in Jan Guenther Braun’s Somewhere Else

3 Queering Tradition in Jessica Penner’s Shaken in The Water

4 Stephen Beachy’s Boneyard, The Martyrs Mirror, and Anabaptist Activism

5 The Queer Ethical Body in Corey Redekop’s Husk

6. Trans Mennonite Literature

Epilogue: The Future of Queer Mennonite Literature

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Early in this provocative and illuminating book, Daniel Shank Cruz observes that literature provides the space that allows us ‘to begin reconciling the identities of queer and Mennonite.’ He populates his fresh, richly documented analysis with a memorable array of writers and texts, all the while offering his readers a timely and compelling archive of queer memory in the context of Mennonite literature and life.”

—Hildi Froese Tiessen, coauthor of Woldemar Neufeld’s Canada: A Mennonite Artist in the Canadian Landscape, 1925-1995

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