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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808900203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

0-271-07656-9

0-271-07658-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 244 pages )

Disciplina

810.99212897

Soggetti

American literature - Mennonite authors - History and criticism

Canadian literature - Mennonite authors - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.