After Identity : : Mennonite Writing in North America / / ed. by Robert Zacharias.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Beck, Ervin,; Brandt, Di,; Cruz, Daniel Shank,; Gundy, Jeff,; Hostetler, Ann,; Kasdorf, Julia Spicher,; Loewen, Royden,; Nathan, Jesse,; Redekop, Magdalene,; Tiessen, Hildi Froese,; Tiessen, Paul,; Zacharias, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Zacharias, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 illustration

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction After Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North America -- PART ONE REFRAMING IDENTITY -- 1 The Autoethnographic Announcement and the Story -- 2 A Mennonite Fin de Siècle Exploring Identity at the Turn of the Twenty- First Century -- 3 Mennonite Transgressive Literature -- 4 Double Identity Covering the Peace Shall Destroy Many Project -- 5 After Ethnicity Gender, Voice, and an Ethic of Care in the Work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- 6 The Mennonite Thing Identity for a Post- Identity Age -- PART TWO EXPANDING IDENTITY -- 7 In Praise of Hybridity Reflections from Southwestern Manitoba -- 8 Queering Mennonite Literature -- 9 Toward a Poetics of Identity -- 10 Question, Answer -- 11 "Is Menno in There?" The Case of "The Man Who Invented Himself " -- 12 After Identity Liberating the Mennonite Literary Text -- Contributors -- Credits -- Index