LEADER 03623nam 2200685 450 001 9910823472203321 005 20231206215649.0 010 $a0-88755-448-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780887554483 035 $a(CKB)2550000001263462 035 $a(CEL)446445 035 $a(OCoLC)860709294 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00233234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4828128 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11368030 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL551580 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/x43bhg 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4828128 035 $a(DE-B1597)664707 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780887554483 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3288465 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001263462 100 $a20170418h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRewriting the break event $eMennonites & migration in Canadian literature /$fRobert Zacharias 210 1$aManitoba, Canada :$cUniversity of Manitoba Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Immigration and Culture,$x1914-1459 ;$v8 311 $a0-88755-747-3 311 $a0-88755-450-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gMachine generated contents note:$gch. 1$tMennonite History and/as Literature --$gch. 2$tGelassenheit or Exodus: My Harp Is Turned to Mourning and the Theo-Pedagogical Narrative --$gch. 3$tDreaming das Volklein: Lost in the Steppe and the Ethnic Narrative --$gch. 4$tIndividual in the Communal Story: The Russlander and the Trauma Narrative --$gch. 5$tStrain of Diaspora: The Blue Mountains of China and the Meta-Narrative. 330 $aDespite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the "Mennonite Commonwealth" in the 1920s. This privileging of a seminal dispersal within the community's broader history reveals the ways in which the 1920s narrative has come to function as an origin story, or "break event," for the Russian Mennonites in Canada, serving to affirm a communal identity across national and generational boundaries. Drawing on recent work in diaspora studies, Rewriting the Break Event offers a historicization of Mennonite literary studies in Canada, followed by close readings of five novels that rewrite the Mennonite break event through specific strains of emphasis, including a religious narrative, ethnic narrative, trauma narrative, and meta-narrative. The result is thoughtful and engaging exploration of the shifting contours of Mennonite collective identity, and an exciting new methodology that promises to resituate the discourse of migrant writing in Canada. 410 0$aStudies in immigration and culture ;$v8. 606 $aMennonites$xIn literature 607 $aSoviet Union$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aCanada$xEmigration and immigration 610 $aMennonite. 610 $aRussian Mennonite. 610 $adiaspora. 610 $aethnicity. 610 $aimmigration. 610 $aliterature. 610 $anarrative. 610 $atrauma. 615 0$aMennonites$xIn literature. 676 $a813/.5409921289771 700 $aZacharias$b Robert$f1977-$01612494 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823472203321 996 $aRewriting the break event$93941314 997 $aUNINA