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 Mennonit...

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