03623nam 2200685 450 991079105210332120231206215649.00-88755-448-210.1515/9780887554483(CKB)2550000001263462(CEL)446445(OCoLC)860709294(CaBNVSL)slc00233234(Au-PeEL)EBL4828128(CaPaEBR)ebr11368030(CaONFJC)MIL551580(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/x43bhg(MiAaPQ)EBC4828128(DE-B1597)664707(DE-B1597)9780887554483(MiAaPQ)EBC3288465(EXLCZ)99255000000126346220170418h20132013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRewriting the break event Mennonites & migration in Canadian literature /Robert ZachariasManitoba, Canada :University of Manitoba Press,2013.©20131 online resource (xii, 227 pages)Studies in Immigration and Culture,1914-1459 ;80-88755-747-3 0-88755-450-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note:ch. 1Mennonite History and/as Literature --ch. 2Gelassenheit or Exodus: My Harp Is Turned to Mourning and the Theo-Pedagogical Narrative --ch. 3Dreaming das Volklein: Lost in the Steppe and the Ethnic Narrative --ch. 4Individual in the Communal Story: The Russlander and the Trauma Narrative --ch. 5Strain of Diaspora: The Blue Mountains of China and the Meta-Narrative.Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the "Mennonite Commonwealth" in the 1920s. This privileging of a seminal dispersal within the community's broader history reveals the ways in which the 1920s narrative has come to function as an origin story, or "break event," for the Russian Mennonites in Canada, serving to affirm a communal identity across national and generational boundaries. Drawing on recent work in diaspora studies, Rewriting the Break Event offers a historicization of Mennonite literary studies in Canada, followed by close readings of five novels that rewrite the Mennonite break event through specific strains of emphasis, including a religious narrative, ethnic narrative, trauma narrative, and meta-narrative. The result is thoughtful and engaging exploration of the shifting contours of Mennonite collective identity, and an exciting new methodology that promises to resituate the discourse of migrant writing in Canada.Studies in immigration and culture ;8.MennonitesIn literatureSoviet UnionEmigration and immigrationCanadaEmigration and immigrationMennonite.Russian Mennonite.diaspora.ethnicity.immigration.literature.narrative.trauma.MennonitesIn literature.813/.5409921289771Zacharias Robert1977-1535706MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791052103321Rewriting the break event3847200UNINA