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The body and the book : writing from a Mennonite life : essays and poems / by Julia Kasdorf.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library PS3561.A6958 B63 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kasdorf, Julia, 1962-
- Series:
- Center books in Anabaptist studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kasdorf, Julia, 1962-.
- Kasdorf, Julia.
- Mennonites--Poetry.
- Mennonites.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Mennonite women.
- United States.
- Mennonite women--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Poetry.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays by nationally known poet Julia Kasdorf "probes," in her own words, "the tangled threads of gender and cultural/religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority." Her ten essays, accompanied by forty-two engaging illustrations (from a nude by Titian, to family photos, to a famous image of Marilyn Monroe) and a dozen of her poems, focus on specific aspects of Mennonite life. Often drawing from historical episodes or family stories, Kasdorf pursues themes of martyrdom, landscape, silence, the body, memory, community, and the struggle to articulate experience with a voice that is both authentic to the self and a conversation with her traditional Mennonite and Amish-Mennonite background.
- Contents:
- 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
- Writing Like a Mennonite.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Conference on Christianity & Literature Book of the Year Award, Winner, 2002
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kasdorf, Julia, 1962- Body and the book.
- ISBN:
- 0801866626
- 9780801866623
- OCLC:
- 45002079
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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