After identity : Mennonite writing in North America / edited by Robert Zacharias.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zacharias, Robert, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mennonite authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Canadian literature--Mennonite authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 244 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The autoethnographic announcement and the story / Julia Spicher Kasdorf

A Mennonite fin de siecle : exploring identity at the turn of the twenty-first century / Royden Loewen

Mennonite transgressive literature / Ervin Beck

Double identity : covering the peace shall destroy many project / Paul Tiessen

After ethnicity : gender, voice, and an ethic of care in the work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher Kasdorf / Ann Hostetler

The Mennonite thing : identity for a post-identity age / Robert Zacharias

In praise of hybridity : reflections from southwestern Manitoba / Di Brandt

Queering Mennonite literature / Daniel Shank Cruz

Toward a poetics of identity / Jeff Grundy

Question, answer / Jesse Nathan

"Is Menno in there?" : the case of "the man who invented himself" / Magdalene Redekop

After identity : liberating the Mennonite literary text / Hildi Froese Tiessen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271076560

0271076569

9780271076584

0271076585

OCLC:

966803318