Reading Mennonite Writing : : A Study in Minor Transnationalism / / Robert Zacharias.
Mennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field’s past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does.Drawing on the transnational...
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