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Vol. 36 (2018)

Published: 2018-07-01

Inside Front Cover

Inside Front Cover

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Title Page

Title Page

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgements

2
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Contents

Contents

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Foreword

Editor's Foreword

Royden Loewen

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Guest Editor's Foreword

Robert Zacharias

9-14
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JMS Forum: Mennonite/s Writing VIII

Mennonite/s Writing and Cruel Optimism: An Interview with Julie Rak

Julie Rak, Robert Zacharias

15-23
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“I didn’t have words for it”: Reflections on Some of the Early Life-Writing of Di Brandt and Julia Kasdorf

Hildi Froese Tiessen

25-41
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Coming Back: The Poetry and Life of Jane Rohrer

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

43-55
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Detachment Theory: History, Story, and Language in Maurice Mierau’s Detachment: An Adoption Memoir

Janice Schroeder

57-73
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The Fields Have Edges, But the Roads Keep Going: 10,000 Things, Assorted Worlds, and Me

Jeff Gundy

75-88
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Scandalous Displacements: “Word” and “Silent Light” in Irma Voth

Travis Kroeker

89-100
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The Queer Call of Wes Funk

Daniel Shank Cruz

101-115
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Writing Through the Words of Those Lost: Memoir and Mourning in Novels by Rudy Wiebe and Miriam Toews

Margaret Steffler

117-135
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The Confessions of Rudy Wiebe: Re-positioning the Peace Shall Destroy Many Event of 1962–63

Paul Tiessen

137-151
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Paradigms of Re:placement, Re:location, and Re:vision: The Creative Challenge of the New Mennonite Writing of Manitoba (and the World)

Di Brandt

153-169
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Personal Narratives

Ort und Vertreibung: My Mother of the 1920s

Elsie K. Neufeld

171-179
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Writing the Autobiography of an Imperfect Stranger

John D. Thiesen

181-188
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Ways of Looking at my Father-in-Law, Refugee and Paraguay Pioneer

Dora Dueck

189-196
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The Migration Narrative of Heinrich Wölk, a Karaganda Church Elder

Johannes Dyck

197-207
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Research Papers

Two Governments, a Railway and a Church: The Old Colony Mennonite Relocation to Central British Columbia in the 1940s

Dawn S. Bowen

209-235
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American Old Order Teachers Write Home from Mexico: Reflections on Gender, Religion and Caregiving

Rebecca Janzen

237-258
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Anti-Fashion as a Social Boundary Marker among Holdeman Mennonite Women

Linda Arthur Bradley

259-277
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Book Reviews

Michael Amo, creator, Pure

Luann Good Gingrich, Kerry Fast

279-282
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Peter Andreas, Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution

Ann Hostetler

283-285
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Angeline Schellenberg, Tell Them It Was Mozart

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

285-287
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Trilby Kent, Once in a Town Called Moth

Margaret Steffler

287-290
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Ken Yoder Reed, Both My Sons

Kyle Gerber

290-292
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Sofia Samatar, Tender

Jessica Penner

293-295
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Robert Martens, Hush

Jeff Gundy

295-298
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Rudy Wiebe, Where the Truth Lies

Paul Tiessen

298-300
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Janis Thiessen, Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour

Nolan Reilly

301-304
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Francis S. Ojwang, ed., Forward in Faith, History of the Kenya Mennonite Church: A Seventy Year Journey, 1942-2012

Daryl Climenhaga

304-306
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Andrew P. Klager, ed., From Suffering to Solidarity: The Historical Seeds of Mennonite Interreligious, Interethnic, and International Peacebuilding

Paul Martens

306-308
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Steven M. Nolt, The Amish: A Concise Introduction

Susan Trollinger

309-310
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S.J. Bronner and J.R. Brown, eds., Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia

Kristin Lovrien-Meuwese

310-312
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Jonathan Dueck, Congregational Music, Conflict and Community

Kenneth R. Hull

312-314
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Kyle Gingerich Hiebert, The Architectonics of Hope: Violence, Apocalyptic, and the Transformation of Political Theology

Maxwell Kennel

314-316
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Roland M. Sawatzky and Andrea M. Dyck, A Collected History: Mennonite Heritage Village

Conrad Stoesz

316-318
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Tributes

A Retirement Tribute to Dr. Hans Werner

Royden Loewen

319-322
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Special Announcements

Welcome to Dr. Aileen Friesen

Royden Loewen

323
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Authors' Profiles

Authors’ Profiles

324-328
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Notices

A People of Diversity: Mennonites in Canada since 1970 (Conference Announcement)

329
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Calls for Papers

330-331
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