Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature

In: Studies in Immigration and Culture v.8

In: Studies in Immigration and Culture Ser v.8

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Rewriting the Break -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On Rewriting Migration in Canadian Literature -- Part 1: "The Tragic Curve of All Mennonites": Narrating the Break Event -- Narrative and Communal Identity -- Rewriting a Usable Past -- Time, Temporality, and the Strain of Repetition -- Part 2: Literature by Mennonites in Canada/Mennonite Canadian Literature -- The Mennonite Exotic -- Chapter 1 - Mennonite History and/as Literature -- Mennonites in Russia, Russian Mennonites -- Rewriting the Break Event -- On the Politics of the Narrative Arc -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 - Gelassenheit or Exodus: My Harp Is Turnedto Mourning and the Theo-Pedagogical Narrative -- Faith in Fiction -- Exodus versus Gelassenheit -- Fiction, Time, History -- Violence and Repetition -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 - Dreaming das Völklein: Lost in the Steppe and the Ethnic Narrative -- The Mennonite Identity Crisis -- Evidence of Ethnicity -- Faith and the Ethnic Ghost -- A People Apart -- Time and Ethnicity -- "Remembering What Will Happen" -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 - The Individual in the Communal Story: The Russländer and the Trauma Narrative -- The Individual Story in/versus the Communal Narrative -- "Na Ja. And So They Killed Them All": The Russländer asTrauma Narrative -- "Lest the Spirit of the Story Pollute the Air":Trauma and Cultural Identity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 - The Strain of Diaspora:The Blue Mountains of China and the Meta-Narrative -- "A Stranger Shape of Novel" -- The Threads of Diaspora -- "After the Break": Difference and Repetition -- Meta-Narrative and Time -- On the Way -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: On Reading Migration in Canadian Literature -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.