After Identity

Robert Zacharias is Assistant Professor of English at York University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAfter Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North AmericaRobert ZachariasPart 1Reframing IdentityChapter 1The Autoethnographic Announcement and the StoryJulia Spicher KasdorfChapter 2A Mennonite Fin de Siècle: Exploring Identity at the Turn of the Twenty-First CenturyRoyden LoewenChapter 3Mennonite Transgressive LiteratureErvin BeckChapter 4Double Identity: Covering the Peace Shall Destroy Many ProjectPaul TiessenChapter 5After Ethnicity: Gender, Voice, and an Ethic of Care in the Work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher KasdorfAnn HostetlerChapter 6The Mennonite Thing: Identity for a Post-Identity AgeRobert ZachariasPart 2Expanding IdentityChapter 7In Praise of Hybridity: Reflections from Southwestern ManitobaDi BrandtChapter 8Queering Mennonite LiteratureDaniel Shank CruzChapter 9Toward a Poetics of IdentityJeff GundyChapter 10Question, AnswerJesse NathanChapter 11“Is Menno in There?” The Case of “The Man Who Invented Himself”Magdalene RedekopChapter 12After Identity: Liberating the Mennonite Literary TextHildi Froese TiessenList of ContributorsCreditsIndex

“Showcasing some of the best new scholarship in cultural studies, After Identity explodes the tight boundaries of Mennonite culture and points us toward the new literary representations that are redefining Mennonite identity in the twenty-first century. An important book for anyone interested in the debates around culture, identity, and writing in the United States and Canada.”—Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University