Mennonite/s
Writing in
June 2012
Ervin Beck, Professor Emeritus of English,
The bibliography consists of three major sections: “Individual Writers,”
“Discussions of Mennonite Literature,” and “Periodicals that include creative writing and literary criticism by and
about Mennonites.”
The
bibliography does not include self-published books, book reviews, or individual
poems or stories published in periodicals or miscellaneous collections, nor
does it include memoirs except for those by
established authors. However, see
“Specialized Bibliographies” below.
Some
of the work toward this bibliography, which was begun by Hildi Froese Tiessen
of
To suggest corrections or additions to this bibliography, e-mail: ervinb@goshen.edu
Specialized Bibliographies
For
a bibliography of Mennonite and Amish serial fiction, most of which books are
Amish-themed romances, or “bonnet” novels, see Ervin Beck http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/2/4/mennonite-and-amish-serial-fiction/ This bibliography will not be updated.
For
a selective bibliography of Mennonite and Amish memoirs, see the list
maintained by Shirley Showalter in her memoir blog http://www.shirleyshowalter.com/anabaptist-memoir/
For
a bibliography of the life and writings of German Mennonite dramatist Hermann
Sudermann, see Lauren Friesen http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/3/4/sudermann-bibliography/
For
a list of novels-in-stories by Mennonite writers see Ervin Beck http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/4/2/mennonite-novel-stories-survey/
A. Individual Writers
Books
and articles by and about Mennonite-related writers, mainly since 1960.
David
Bergen
Sitting
Opposite My Brother.
A Year of
Lesser.
See the
Child.
The Case
of
The
Time in Between.
The
Retreat.
The Matter with Morris.
Beck, Ervin.
“Resolving Dualisms in David Bergen’s Sitting Opposite My Brother.” Mennonite
Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003): 637-46.
Besner,
Neil. “
Brown,
Heidi. “David Bergen.” New Quarterly: New Directions in Canadian Writing”
21:2-3 (Sum-Fall 2001): 155.
Walker,
Morley. “David Bergen: In Country.” Quill
and Quire. www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.
Wiens,
Adelia Neufeld. “Writing is Novelist’s
Miller, K.D.
“The Spirit Moves—Or Does It? Are Writers Divinely Inspired?” New Quarterly:
New Directions in Canadian Writing 21:2-3 (Sum-Fall 2001): 256-74.
Hildi Froese
Tiessen. “Where I Come From: An Interview with David Bergen.” Prairie Fire
17.4 (Winter 1997).
Sandra
Birdsell
Night
Travellers.
Ladies of
the House.
The
Missing Child.
The
Chrome Suite.
The
Two-Headed Calf.
The Town
That Floated Away.
The
Russlander.
Children
of the Day.
Waiting
for Joe.
Bergman,
Brian. “Pacifist and Doomed.” Maclean’s,
Birdsell, Sandra.
“The Confession of a Reluctant Mennonite.” The 2007 Bechtel Lectures. Conrad
Grebel Review 26:1 (Winter 2008): 7-40.
__________.
“Introduction,” Hildi Froese Tiessen, 6-7.
__________.
“Writing from the Outside,” 8-24.
__________.
“Writing from the Inside,” 25-40.
Birdsell,
Sandra. “Interview.” Prairie Bookworld 2 (Summer 1991): 11.
__________. “Robert
Kroetsch: The Class of ‘79.” Prairie Fire 9.1 (1988): 48-55.
“Birdsell,
Sandra.” Contemporary Authors 130. Ed. Susan M. Trosky. Gale: Detroit, 1990. P. 37.
Diehl-Jones,
Charlene. “Sandra Birdsell’s
Doerksen,
Victor G. “‘Our Father, Which Art in Heaven...’: Some Thoughts on the Father
Image in Mennonite Poetry.” In Acts of Concealment: Mennonite/s Writing in
Duncan,
Isla. “’The Profound Poverty of Knowledge’: Sandra Birdsell’s Narrative of
Concealment.” Canadian Literature 169 (Sum 2001): 85-101.
Froese,
Edna. “A Reviewer’s Farewell.” Christian Living Dec 2002, 20-22.
On Russlander.
Harrison,
Dallas. “Birdsell, Sandra (1942- ).” In Canadian Writers and Their Works
. Ed. Robert Lecker et al.
__________. “Sandra
Birdsell: An Annotated Bibliography.” Essays on Canadian Writing 48
(Winter 1992-93): 170-220.
Heinen-Dimmer,
Gabrielle. “The Whole Idea of Empathy: Prairie Realism and Female Narrative
Structure in Sandra Birdsell’s Agassiz Stories.” In The Guises of
Canadian Diversity: New European Perspectives. Ed. Jaumain Serge and Marc
Maufort.
McCormack,
Eric, et al. “A Conversation with Sandra Birdsell.” New Quarterly 8
(Sum. 1988): 8-22.
The New
Quarterly 8 (Sum. 1988). Special
issue on Sandra Birdsell, including the McCormack interview, Birdsell’s “The
Birthday Party,” 25-42 and three stories by other writers selected by Birdsell.
Quennet,
Fabienne C. “Gender Troubles in Sandra Birdsell’s Short Story ‘Judgement.’“ In Ahornblatter:
Marburger Beitrage zur Kanada-Forschung.
Ed. Andrea
Wolff-Wolk.
Stubbs,
Andrew. “The Rhetoric of Narration in Sandra Birdsell’s Fiction.” In Acts of
Concealment: Mennonite/s Writing in
Tiessen,
Paul. “Minnie Pullman and the Salvation of the
__________. “Putting
Herself Forward: Naming and Performance in Sandra Birdsell’s The Russlander.”
Mennonite Quarlerly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 647-62.
__________.”Revisiting
Home: Reading Miriam Toews’s A Complicated
Kindness and Sandra Birdsell’s Children
of the Day through the Lens of Ontario-Mennonite Literature.” Mennonite
Quarterly Review 82:1 (Jan. 2008): 127-46.
Werlock,
Abby H. P. “Canadian Identity and Women’s Voices: The Fiction of Sandra
Birdsell and Carol Shields.” In Canadian Women Writing Fiction. Ed.
Mickey Pearlman.
Kevin
James Block
Without
Shedding of Blood.
Leanne Boschman
Precipitous
Signs: A Rain Journal. Lantzville, B.C.: 2009.
Di Brandt
questions
i asked my mother.
Agnes in
the Sky.
Mother,
not Mother.
Wild Mother
Dancing: Maternal Narratives in Canadian Literature.
Dancing
Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries.
Now You
Care.
Bouquet
for St. Mary.
So
This Is the World and Here I Am in It. Edmondton: NeWest Press, [c. 2007].
Watermelon
Syrup.
Walking
to Mojacar.
Brandt, Di. “A
Complicated Kind of Author” [Interview]. Herizons
19.1 (Sum. 2005): 20-45.
__________.
“Growing Up Among The Wild Mennonites.” Christian Living July/Aug. 2002,
14-17.
__________. “How
I Got Saved.” In Why I Am a Mennonite. Ed. Harry Loewen.
__________. “The
Poet and the
__________. “Putting
the Mother Back in the Language: Maria Campbell’s Revisionary Biogeographies
and Margaret Laurence’s The
Diviners.” West Coast Line 33.2 (Fall 1999): 86-105.
__________. “Revisiting
Dorothy Livesay’s The Husband.” Capilano Review 2.32 (Fall 2000):
75-89.
__________. “Shapeshifting
Strategies for the New Millennium.” Contemporary Verse 2, 22.4 (Spring 2000): 63.
__________,
ed. with Barbara Goddard. Regenerations:
Canadian Women Poets in Conversation.
Fisher,
Sheldon. “Mother, Me, My Daughter: Feminism, Maternity and the Poetry of Di
Brandt.” Wascanada Review 31:1 (Spring 1996): 31-48.
Guillemot,
Cecile Brisebois. “Wild Mother Dancing: An Interview with Di Brandt.” Contemporary
Verse 2, 23.4 (Spring 2001): 7+.
Hostetler,
Ann. “A Valediction Forbidding
Excommunication: Ecopoetics and the Reparative Journey Home in Recent Work by
Di Brandt.” Journal of Mennonite Studies, 28 (2010): 69-86.
Lousley,
Cheryl. “Home on the Prairie? A Feminist and Postcolonial
MacDonald,
Patterson,
Randi. “‘The sound the wind makes” on the
Tefs, Wayne.
“Rage in Some Recent Mennonite Poetry.” In Acts of Concealment: Mennonite/s
Writing in
Williamson,
Janice, ed. Sounding Difference: Conversations with Seventeen
Canadian Women Writers.
Lois
Braun
The Stone
Watermelon.
The
Pumpkin-Eaters.
The
The
Penance Drummer: Stories.
Jan Guenther Braun
Somewhere Else.
Michael Bryson
Thirteen
Shades of Black and White.
Only a
Melanie
Cameron
Holding
the Dark.
Wake.
Bryson,
Michael. “Feature Interview.” The Danforth Review. Fall 2000.
http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/cameron_interview.htm.
Budde,
Robert. “Beyond Wishing, She Wishes.” In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11
Poets.
Eleanor Hildebrand Chornoboy
Faspa: A
Snack of Mennonite Stories.
Jeff
Derksen
Down Time.
Dwell.
Transnational
Muscle Cars.
Janice L. Dick
Calm
Before the Storm.
Eye of
the Storm.
Out of
the Storm.
Diane
Driedger
Darkness is a Marshmallow.
The
Mennonite Madonna.
Dora
Dueck
Under the Still Standing Sun. Kindred. 1989.
With Byron Rempel-Burkholder, eds. Northern
Lights – An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in
This Hidden Thing.
Lynette d’Anna
Dueck
Sing Me
No More.
Rag Time
Bone.
fool’s
bells.
E. F.
Dyck
Odpoems
&.
Pisscat
Songs.
Mossbank
Canon.
Apostrophes
to Myself.
Amprimoz,
Alexandre L. “Death and the Long Poem: E. F. Dyck’s The Mossbank Canon.”
Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 20 (Spring –Sum. 1987):
80-89.
David H.
Elias
Crossing
the Line.
Places of
Grace.
Sunday
Afternoon.
Waiting
for Elvis.
For the Sake of Rose. Downloadable
E-book at buzzwordbooks.com
Froese,
Edna. “David Elias: Beyond Ungrace: Christian Living Oct.-Nov. 1999,
25-27.
__________.
“Speaking Redemption: Narrative Voice in David Elias’s Sunday Afternoon.” Journal of
Mennonite Studies 27 (2009): 201-12.
__________. “Transgression
into Grace: David Elias’s Sunday
Afternoon.” Mennonite Quarterly Review
82:1 (Jan. 2008): 147-60.
Victor
Jerrett Enns
Jimmy
Bang Poems.
Correct
in This Culture.
A Poem of
Pears.
Lucky
Roger Epp
We Are
All Prairie People.
Bernice
Friesen
Sex, Death and Naked Men.
The Book of Beasts. Regina, SK: Coteau, 2007.
The Seasons Are Horses. (Stories)
Gayle
Friesen
Janey’s Girl.
Men of Stone.
Losing
Forever.
The Isbel
Factor.
For Now.
The
Valley.
Patrick
Friesen
the lands
I am.
Bluebottle.
The
Shunning.
Unearthly
Horses.
Flicker
and Hawk.
You Don’t
Get to Be a Saint. Winnipeg:
Turnstone Press, 1992.
Blasphemer’s
Wheel.
A Broken
Bowl.
st. mary
at main.
Carrying
the Shadow.
The
Breath You Take from the Lord.
Bordello
Poems.
Interim: Essays and Mediations.
Earth’s
Crude Gravities.
with
Marilyn Lerner, Peggy Lee and Niko Friesen.
Calling the Dog Home: a Cycle of Poems with Music.
Barker,
Peter. “The Poetry of Experience: An Interview with Patrick Friesen.” Prairie
Fire 7:1 (Spring 1986): 5-14.
Friesen,
Patrick. “I Could Have Been Born in
__________. and Marilyn Lerner. Small Rooms.
Westcoast Performance:
“Friesen,
Patrick.” Contemporary Authors 32 (new rev.). Ed. James G. Lesniak.
Gundy, Jeff.
“Voice and History in Patrick Friesen.” The New Quarterly [Mennonite/s
Writing in
Hostetler,
Sherri. “Interview: Poet Patrick Friesen: One Foot In, One Foot Out.” Mennonot
1 (Fall 1993): 5-9.
Lenoski,
Daniel. “The Sandbox Holds Civilization: Pat Friesen and the Mennonite Past.” In
Essays on Canadian Writing. Ed. Jack David.
Pearson,
Tefs, Wayne.
“
Tiessen,
Hildi Froese. “Hooked, but Not Landed: A Conversation with Patrick Friesen,
Part II.” Prairie Fire 2:2 (1990): 152-9.
__________. “Zen,
Grace, and Flying: A Conversation with Patrick Friesen, Part 1.” The New
Quarterly [Mennonite/s Writing in
__________
and G. N. Louise Jonasson, eds. Prairie
Fire [special issue on Patrick Friesen] 13 ( Spring 1992).
— Hildi Froese Tiessen, “Words
Are Not Enough,” 5-7.
— Patrick Friesen, “A
Biography in Outline,” 8-9.
— Robert Enright, “Parallel
Language: A Conversation between Patrick Friesen. . .” 11-29.
— Kim McCaw, “The Shunning
by Flashlight,” 34-47.
— Peter Smith, “Patrick
Friesen and ‘The Mennonite Question,’“ 38-39.
— Victor Jerrett Enns, “. . .
Excerpts from the Correspondence of Patrick Friesen,” 45-52.
— Allan Safarik, “Good Night
Louis,” 53-59.
— Di Brandt, “A Letter to
Patrick,” 64-67.
— Myrna Kostash, “Tracking
Friesen: Notes toward an Autofiction,” 70-77.
— Nancy Trites Botkin, “One
Voice, Endless Song: Patrick Friesen,” 78-86.
— Per Brask, “In the Spirit of
Collaboration: An Interview with Patrick Friesen,” 87-101.
— Ruth Cansfield, “ Handful of
Words,” 106-9.
— Patrick Friesen, “The Dance
Floor (Appartitions),” 110-11.
— Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, “Windows
in Time: The Photographic Image in Patrick Friesen’s Poetry,” 115-23.
—
— Howard Curle, “Learning to
Look: Films and Videos of Patrick Friesen,” 151-53.
— Patrick Friesen, “from
Patrick Friesen’s the raft, act one,” 154-58.
— Michael Springate, “Patrick
Friesen and the raft,” 159-62.
— Patrick Friesen, “from
Patrick Friesen’s the raft, act two,” 163-69.
— Doug Arrell, “Anti-realism
and Psychological Truth,” 170-71.
— Heidi Harms, “Myths of
Family and ‘the skin’s memory,’“ 171-73.
— Reg Skene and Jacqui Good, “‘the
raft’: a Mennonite Noh Play?” 174-77.
— Maurice Mierau, “Friesen and
Akhmatova, or Silence as a Career,” 178-80.
— Scott Ellis, “A Sceptical
Mystic,” 182-85 (rev. of You Don’t Get to Be a Saint ).
Steven “Reece” Friesen
Pax Avalon: Conflict Resolution.
Carla
Funk
Blessing
the Bones into Light.
Head Full
of Sun. Robert’s Creek, BC:
Nightwood, 2002.
The
Sewing Room.
Apologetics.
Paul Hiebert
Sarah Binks. 1947; rpt.
Brandt, Di. “Remembering Paul Hiebert.” Rhubarb 1:3
(Summer 1999): 43-44.
Gerson,
Carole. “Sarah Binks and Edna Jaques: Parody, Gender, and the Construction of
Literary Value.” Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 62-76.
MacKendrick,
Louis K. “Paul Hiebert.” Canadian Writers 1920-1959: Dictionary of
Literary Biography Vol. 68.
Noonan,
Gerald. “Incongruity and Nostalgia in Sarah Binks.” Studies in
Canadian Literature 3 (1978); 264-73.
Panofsky,
Ruth. “’Literary Swan’ or ‘Village
Goose’: Paul Hiebert’s Sarah
Binks.” Publishing History 56 (2004):
71-88.
Porter,
Saunders,
Doris. “
Siemens,
Reynold. “Sarah Binks in Retrospect: A Conversation with Paul Hiebert.” Journal
of Canadian Fiction 19 (1977).
Anita Horrocks
Almost
Darcie Friesen Hossack
Mennonites Don’t Dance.
Walfried
Janssen
Not a
In the
Beginning. Thompson,
Jack Klassen
The
Chiropractor.
Sarah
Klassen
Journey
to
Violence
and Mercy.
Borderwatch.
Dangerous
Elements.
Simone
Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love.
Days of
Noah.
The Peony
Season.
A Curious
Beatitude.
A
Feast of Longing.
MacDonald,
Maust,
Miriam. “An Interview with Sarah Klassen.” The New Quarterly: New Directions
in Canadian Writing 13:3 (Fall 1993): 34-45.
Anne
Konrad
The Blue
Jar.
Family
Games.
Konrad,
Anne. And in Their Silent Beauty
Speaks: A Mennonite Family in
__________. “Why the Soviet Mennonite Story Remains
Unfinished.”Christian Living April-May 2000, 4-8.
John
Kooistra
Shoo-fly
Dyck.
Grant
Loewen
Brick,
Looking Up.
Robert Martens
ever
after and other poems.
Maurice
Mierau
Ending
With Music.
Fear Not.
Alayna Munce
When I
Was Young & In My Prime.
Elsie K. Neufeld
Grief
Blading Up: Poems.
Barbara
Nickel
Opal’s
Sun.
The
Secret Wish of Nanner Mozart.
The
Gladys Elegies.
From the
Top of a Grain Elevator.
Hannah
Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Domain: Poems,
Rosemary
Deckert Nixon
Mostly
Country . Edmondton: NeWest Press,
1991.
The Cock’s
Egg. Edmondton: NeWest Press, 1994.
Christina Penner
Widows of
Audrey
Poetker(-Thiessen)
I Sing
for My Dead in German.
Standing
All the Night Through.
Making
Strange to Yourself.
Lloyd Ratzlaff
Backwater
Mystic Blues.
The Crow
Who Tampered with Time.
Corey Redekop
Shelf
Monkey.
Al Reimer
Trans. and ed., Dietrich Neufeld. A Russian Dance of Death.
Trans. and
ed., Hans Harder. No Strangers in Exile.
My Harp
Is Turned to Mourning.
When War Came to Kleindarp and More Kleindarp Stories.
Douglas
Reimer
Older
Than Ravens.
Byron
Rempel
True
Detective.
Truth is
Naked, All Others Pay Cash: An Autobiographical Exaggeration.
Karl Schroeder
with David Nickel. The Claus
Effect. Edmondton:
Tesseract Press, 1997.
Ventus. New York : Tor, 2001.
Permanence. New York : Tor, 2002.
Scams!
The Engine of Recall.
Thieves!
Sun of Suns.
Lady of Mazes
Queen of Candesce. New
York: Tor, 2007.
Perlmutter, David and Donovan Giesbrecht. “Mennonite in the Solar System: An Interview with Karl Schroeder.” Journal
of Mennonite Studies 25 (2007):
275-78.
Andreas
Schroeder
The Ozone
Minotaur.
The Late
Shaking
It Rough: Prison Memoirs.
Cheats,
Charlatons, and Chicavery: More Outrageour Tales of Skulduggery.
Toccata
in “D”: A Micro-Novel.
Dustship
Glory.
The
Mennonites: A
Pictorial History of Their Lives in
The
Eleventh Commandment: Mennonite Low German Short Stories. Trans. with Jack Thiessen.
Scams,
Scandals, and Skulduggery: A
Selection of the World’s Most Outrageous Frauds.
Renovating
Heaven: A Novel in Triptych.
Hancock,
Geoff. “An Interview with Andreas Schroeder.” Canadian Fiction Magazine
27 (1977): 47-69.
Schroeder,
Andreas. “The ‘New’ Short Story.” Canadian Fiction Magazine 1 (1971): 5.
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Henry’s
Cherokee
Run.
Wigwam in
the City.
Underground
to
Days of
Terror.
Amish
Adventure.
Henry’s
Red Sea.
White
Mist.
Jacob’s
Little Giant.
The
Incredible Jumbo.
Garth
and the Mermaid.
Rich, Elaine
Sommers. “Tribute to Barbara Claassen Smucker.” Mennonite Quarterly Review
77:4 (Oct. 2003), 688-90.
Carrie Snyder
Hair Hat.
The
Juliet Stories.
Sue Sorensen
A Large
Harmonium.
Jack
Thiessen
Faux Pas. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, c. 1989.
The
Eleventh Commandment. Trans. with
Andreas Schroeder.
Vern
Thiessen
Blowfish.
Apple.
Einstein’s
Gift.
Shakespeare’s
Will.
Tiessen, Hildi Froese. “’Every
Play Should Pose a Good Question’: An Interview with Vern Thiessen.” Journal of the Center for Mennonite
Writing 2.7 (November 2010): 1-21.
Online.
Miriam
Toews
Summer of
My Amazing Luck.
A Boy of
Good Breeding.
Swing
Low: A Life.
A
Complicated Kindness.
The
Flying Troutmans.
Irma Voth.
Bixler, Phyllis. “Not Just about
Mennonites: Literary Contexts for
Reading Miriam Toews’ A Complicated
Kindness. Mennonite Life (June
2005). On-line.
Brandt, Di. “A Complicated Kind of Author” [interview]. Herizons 19.1 (Summer 2005): 20-45.
Gundy, Jeff. “A Complicated Kindness:
Learning, Lies, and Stories.” Mennonite
Life (June 2005). Online.
Kreider, Robert. “Comments on Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness.” Mennonite Life (June 2005). Online.
Kuester, Martin. “A Complicated
Kindness: The Contribution of Mennonite
Authors to Canadian Literature.” Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing 3:2
(March 2011). Online.
Reimer, Al. “Look Homeward,
Nomi: Misreading a Novel as Social
History.” Mennonite Life (June 2005). Online.
Park,
Steffler, Margaret. “Fragments and Absences: Language and Loss in Miriam
Toews’s A Complicated Kindness.” Journal of Canadian Studies 43.3 (Autumn
2009): 124-45.
Tiessen, Hildi Froese. “’
Tiessen, Paul. “Revisiting
Home: Reading Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness and Sandra
Birdsell’s Children of the Day through the Lens of Ontario-Mennonite
Literature.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 82:1
(Jan. 2008): 127-46.
Wiebe,
Christoph. “The Tail End of a
Five-Hundred Year Experiment That Has Failed.”
Journal of the Center for
Mennonite Writing 3.2 (March 2011).
Online
Wiebe,
Natasha G. “’It Gets Under the Skin and Settles in’: A Conversation with Miriam
Toews.” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1
(Winter 2008): 103-24.
__________. “Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness: Restorying the Russian Mennonite
Diaspora. Journal of Mennonite Studies, 28 (2010): 33-54.
K. Louise
Vincent
The Discipline of
Undressing.
David
Waltner-Toews
That
Inescapable Animal.
The Earth
Is One Body. [
Good
Housekeeping.
Three
Mennonite Poets. Intercourse,
Endangered
Species.
One
Animal among Many: Gaia, Goats and Gailic.
Food, Sex
and Salmonella: The Risks of Environmental Intimacy.
The
Impossible Uprooting.
The Fat
Lady Struck Dumb.
One Foot
in Heaven.
The
Complete Tante Tina: Mennonite
Blues and Recipes. [
Fear
of Landing.
The
Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic
Panics and Deadly Diseases. . .
Tiessen,
Hildi Froese. “Literary Refractions [and Four Poems from the Tante Tina -
Little Haenschew Dialogues].” Conrad Grebel Review 20.1 (Winter 2002):
102-11.
John
Weier
After the
Revolution.
Ride the
Blue Roan.
Steppe: A
Novel.
Twelve
Poems for Emily Carr.
Friends
Coming Back as Animals.
Coils of
the Yamuna.
Marshwalker:
Naturalist Memories.
Twelve
Poems for Emily Carr.
Stand the
Sacred Tree.
Violinmaker’s
Lament.
Armin
Wiebe
The
Salvation of Yasch Siemens.
Murder in
Gutenthal: A Schneppa Kjnals Mystery.
The
Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst.
Tatsea.
The
Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz.
Reimer, A.
James. “Chapter 10: Salvation Part One: Yasch Siemens or George Brunk.” In The
Dogmatic Imagination.
Reimer,
Margaret Loewen. “Armin Wiebe Returns to Gutenthal.” Mennonite Reporter 13 Jan. 1992, 12.
Straus, Frank Michael. “The Salvation of Yasch Siemens: A Second
Wiebe,
Henry. “Myth, Ritual and Language in Armin Wiebe’s The Salvation of Yasch
Siemens.” New Quarterly [Mennonite/s Writing in
Rudy
Wiebe
Peace
Shall Destroy Many.
First and
Vital Candle.
The
The
Temptations of Big Bear.
Where Is
the Voice Coming From?
The
Scorched-Wood People.
Far as the
Eye Can See. Edmondton: NeWest Press,
1977.
The Mad
Trapper.
A Voice
in the Land: Essays By and About
Rudy Wiebe. Ed. W.J. Keith. Edmondton: NeWest Press, 1981.
The Angel
of the Tar Sands and Other Stories.
My Lovely
Enemy.
Playing
Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the
Chinook
Christmas.
A
Discovery of Strangers.
and Yvonne
Johnson. Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman.
Sweeter
Than All the World.
With
Geoffrey James. Place:
Hidden
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal
Rudy Wiebe: Collected
Stories 1955-2010.
Antor,
Heinz. “The Mennonite Experiences in the Novels of Rudy Wiebe.” In Refractions
of
Bailey,
Beck, Ervin.
“The Politics of Rudy Wiebe in The
__________. “Postcolonial
Complexity in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe.” Modern Fiction Studies 47.4
(Winter 2001): 855-86.
__________. “Rudy
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