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Reading Mennonite Writing - A Study in Minor Transnationalism (Hardcover)
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Reading Mennonite Writing - A Study in Minor Transnationalism (Hardcover)
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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.
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