Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature

by Robert Zacharias

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Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the "Mennonite Commonwealth" in the 1920s. This privileging of a seminal dispersal within the community's broader history reveals the ways in which the 1920s narrative has come to function as an origin...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0887557473

ISBN13:9780887557477

Release Date:September 2013

Publisher:University of Manitoba Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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