After Identity
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After Identity

Mennonite Writing in North America

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After Identity

Mennonite Writing in North America

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: After Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North America (Robert Zacharias)
  6. PART I: Reframing Identity
  7. Chapter 1: The Autoethnographic Announcement and the Story (Julia Spicher Kasdorf)
  8. Chapter 2: A Mennonite Fin de Siècle: Exploring Identity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Royden Loewen)
  9. Chapter 3: Mennonite Transgressive Literature (Ervin Beck)
  10. Chapter 4: Double Identity: Covering the Peace Shall Destroy Many Project (Paul Tiessen)
  11. Chapter 5: After Ethnicity: Gender, Voice, and an Ethic of Care in the Work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher Kasdorf (Ann Hostetler)
  12. Chapter 6: The Mennonite Thing: Identity for a Post-Identity Age (Robert Zacharias)
  13. PART II: Expanding identity
  14. Chapter 7: In Praise of Hybridity Reflections from Southwestern Manitoba (Di Brandt)
  15. Chapter 8: Queering Mennonite Literature (Daniel Shank Cruz)
  16. Chapter 9: Toward a Poetics of Identity (Jeff Gundy)
  17. Chapter 10: Question, Answer (Jesse Nathan)
  18. Chapter 11: “Is Menno in There?”: The Case of “The Man Who Invented Himself ” (Magdalene Redekop)
  19. Chapter 12: After Identity: Liberating the Mennonite Literary Text (Hildi Froese Tiessen)
  20. Contributors
  21. Credits
  22. Index
  23. COVER Back