Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: After Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North America Robert Zacharias 1
Part 1 Reframing Identity
Chapter 1 The Autoethnographic Announcement and the Story Julia Spicher Kasdorf 21
Chapter 2 A Mennonite Fin de Siécle: Exploring Identity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Royden Loewen 37
Chapter 3 Mennonite Transgressive Literature Ervin Beck 52
Chapter 4 Double Identity; Covering the Peace Shall Destroy Many Project Paul Tiessen 70
Chapter 5 After Ethnicity: Gender, Voice, and an Ethic of Care in the Work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher Kasdorf Ann Hostetler 86
Chapter 6 The Mennonite Thing: Identity for a Post-Identity Age Robert Zacharias 106
Part 2 Expanding Identity
Chapter 7 In Praise of Hybridity: Reflections from Southwestern Manitoba Di Brandt 125
Chapter 8 Queering Mennonite Literature Daniel Shank Cruz 143
Chapter 9 Toward a Poetics of Identity Jeff Gundy 159
Chapter 10 Question, Answer Jesse Nathan 175
Chapter 11 "Is Menno in There?" The Case of "The Man Who Invented Himself" Magdalene Redekop 194
Chapter 12 After Identity: Liberating the Mennonite Literary Text Hildi Froese Tiessen 210
List of Contributors 227
Credits 231
Index 233