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After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America
Contributor(s): Zacharias, Robert (Editor)

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ISBN: 0271070382     ISBN-13: 9780271070384
Publisher: Penn State University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Canadian
- Religion | Christianity - Mennonite
- Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts
Dewey: 810.992
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9" L (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Cultural Region - Canadian
 
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For decades, the field of Mennonite literature has been dominated by the question of Mennonite identity. After Identity interrogates this prolonged preoccupation and explores the potential to move beyond it to a truly post-identity Mennonite literature.

The twelve essays collected here view Mennonite writing as transitioning beyond a tradition concerned primarily with defining itself and its cultural milieu. What this means for the future of Mennonite literature and its attendant criticism is the question at the heart of this volume. Contributors explore the histories and contexts--as well as the gaps--that have informed and diverted the perennial focus on identity in Mennonite literature, even as that identity is reread, reframed, and expanded.

After Identity is a timely reappraisal of the Mennonite literature of Canada and the United States at the very moment when that literature seems ready to progress into a new era.

In addition to the editor, the contributors are Ervin Beck, Di Brandt, Daniel Shank Cruz, Jeff Gundy, Ann Hostetler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Royden Loewen, Jesse Nathan, Magdalene Redekop, Hildi Froese Tiessen, and Paul Tiessen.


Contributor Bio(s): Zacharias, Robert: - Robert Zacharias is Assistant Professor of English at York University.
 
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