Journal of Mennonite Studies
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Mennonites
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Mennonites
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Author : Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 027109303X
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 turn in literary studies, Robert Zacharias positions Mennonite literature in North America as “a mode of circulation and reading” rather than an expression of a distinct community. He tests this reframing with a series of methodological experiments that open new avenues of critical engagement with the field’s unique configuration of faith-based intercultural difference. These include cross-sectional readings in nonnarrative literary history; archival readings of transatlantic life writing; Canadian rewritings of Mexican film’s deployment of Mennonite theology as fantasy; an examination of the fetishistic structure of ethnicity as a “thing” that has enabled Mennonite identity to function in a post-identity age; and, finally, a tentative reinvestment in ideals of Mennonite community via the surprising routes of queerness and speculative fiction. In so doing, Zacharias reads Mennonite writing in North America as a useful case study in the shifting position of minor literatures in the wake of the transnational turn. Theoretically sophisticated, this study of minor transnationalism will appeal to specialists in Mennonite literature and to scholars working in the broader field of transnational literary studies.
Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0887554385
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Author : Peter J. Klassen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0801891132
Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.
Author : Kimberly D. Schmidt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801867866
""A major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity."" -- Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Author : Mark Jantzen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1487525540
European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders.
Author : Angeline Schellenberg
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1772125210
You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt. Remorse, a code you live by; distress calls for someone to blame. —from “Threads” Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring their influence on her life. Her elegiac love letter to them articulates her grief against the backdrop of their involuntary emigration. She artfully captures the immigrant identity, vital to Canadian culture, in poems that draw on events both personal and global: war and famine, dementia and cancer, hidden sacrifice and secrets. Her poems captivate with themes of ancestry, memory, resilience, and forgiveness. Fields of Light and Stone is a reflection on how family history shapes and moves us.
Author : James O. Lehman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801886720
Explores the moral dilemmas faced by various religious sects and how these groups struggled to come to terms with the effects of wartime Americanization-- without sacrificing their religious beliefs and values.
Author : Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Studies in Immigration and Cul
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780887557477
"Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.
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File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 19??
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