Contents
Introduction
H.F.T.: Mapping Our Imaginative Becoming by Robert Zacharias

1. A Mighty Inner River: “Peace” in the Early Fiction of Rudy Wiebe (1973)
2. The Role of Art and Literature in Mennonite Self-Understanding (1988)
3. Mother Tongue as Shibboleth in the Literature of Canadian Mennonites (1988)
4. Mennonite Writing and the Post-Colonial Condition (1992)
5. Beyond the Binary: Re-inscribing Cultural Identity in the Literature of Mennonites (1998)
6. Mennonite Literature and Postmodernism: Writing the “In-Between” Space (2000)
7. Between Memory and Longing: Rudy Wiebe’s Sweeter Than All the World (2003)
8. Critical Thought and Mennonite Literature: Mennonite Studies Engages the Mennonite Literary Voice (2004)
9. A Mennonite Novelist’s Journey (from) Home: Ephraim Weber’s Encounters with S.F. Coffman and Lucy Maud Montgomery (2006)
10. Mennonite/s Writing: State of the Art? (2008)
11. An Imagined Coherence: Mennonite Literature and Mennonite Culture (2010)
12. The Case of Dallas Wiebe: Literary Art in Worship (2011)
13. Homelands, Identity Politics, and the Trace: What Remains for the Mennonite Reader? (2013)
14. After Identity: Liberating the Mennonite Literary Text (2015)
15. Beyond “What We by Habit or Custom Already Know,” or, What Do We Mean When We Talk about Mennonite/s Writing? (2016)
16. Thirty Years of Mennonite Literature: How a Modest Course Became Something Else (2016)
17. “I didn’t have words for it”: Reflections on Some of the Early Life-Writing of Di Brandt and Julia Kasdorf (2018)

Afterword by Hildi Froese Tiessen
“Some Hidden Rhythm”: On Being Right There, Right Then (2023)

Author's Note
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author