On Mennonite/s Writing

In 1973, Hildi Froese Tiessen published the first academic essay about Rudy Wiebe’s fiction (included in this volume). Since then, in scholarly essays and talks, she has examined with great insight the literary careers of Di Brandt, Patrick Friesen, Julia Kasdorf, Sandra Birdsell, and David Waltner-Toews, as well as key origin figures like Arnold Dyck and Al Reimer. Dr. Froese Tiessen’s widely admired essays include several (among the first of their kind) which situate Mennonite literature in relation to postmodernism, as well as investigations of the sometimes disconcerting ethnic and theological assumptions about Mennonite artistic practice. The essays in On Mennonite/s Writing are the first solo collection of Dr. Tiessen’s writings, and she has written a major new piece especially for this publication.

AUTHOR

Hildi Froese Tiessen

Dr. Hildi Froese Tiessen is one of the foremost scholars of Mennonite literature today. Raised in Manitoba, Hildi Froese Tiessen earned a BA at the University of Winnipeg and an MA and PhD at the University of Alberta. She taught English and Peace & Conflict Studies (1987-2012) at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, where she also served as academic dean. She is the editor of Liars and Rascals (1989), an anthology of short fiction by Mennonite authors and, with Paul Tiessen, After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber (2006).

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Robert Zacharias

Robert Zacharias teaches at Toronto’s York University. He is the author of Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism (2022) and Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature (2013); he is also the editor of After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America (2015).

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Hildi Froese Tiessen has played an essential role in the remarkable flowering of Mennonites writing over what is now half a century The publication of her essays reveals anew the great generosity critical acumen and encyclopedic knowledge that Tiessen has offered to the Mennonite writing community Jeff Gundy

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Dimensions:

318 Pages
9in * 6in * .7in
.5kg

Published:

December 01, 2023

Publisher:

CMU Press

ISBN:

9781987986129

Book Subjects:

LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Featured In:

Congress 2025

Language:

eng

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