{"product_id":"reading-mennonite-writing-robert-zacharias-9780271092744","title":"Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMennonite 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 \u003ci\u003eReading Mennonite Writing \u003c\/i\u003edoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheoretically 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Zacharias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271092742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271092744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Robert Zacharias","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056721883391,"sku":"9780271092744","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_714db8f7-8b68-4549-a45f-29408762e2b3.jpg?v=1685042895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-mennonite-writing-robert-zacharias-9780271092744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}