Queering Mennonite Literature

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