On Mennonite/S Writing
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In 1973, Hildi Froese Tiessen published the first academic essay about Rudy Wiebe's fiction (included in this volume). 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 piece especially for this publication.
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Dr. Hildi Froese Tiessen is one of the foremost scholars of Mennonite literature today. She taught English and Peace & Conflict Studies (1987-2012) at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. She is the editor of Liars and Rascals (1989), an anthology of fiction and, with Paul Tiessen, After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Ephraim Weber (2006).
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).