Mennonite/s Writing in the
June 2009
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
This bibliography was originally prepared for the
conference “Mennonite/s Writing in the
To
suggest corrections or additions to this bibliography, e-mail: ervinb@goshen.edu
A.
Individual Writers
Books and articles (not including book reviews) written by and about Mennonite-related writers since 1960.
Helen Alderfer
The Mill
Grinds Fine: Collected Poems.
Katherine Arnold
All Things
Are Labor.
Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr.
Moonflowers at Dusk.
Hostetler, Ann. “Coming into
Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the Beginning of Mennonite Poetry in the
Philip N. Bier
The Quest
for Shar-I-Sabs.
Stephen Raleigh Byler
Searching for Intruders: A Novel in Stories.
Yoder, Carroll. “Searching for Intruders: The Story Behind the Novel.”
Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003): 663-70.
Juanita Brunk
Brief Landing on the Earth’s
Surface.
Clemens, Judy
Till the
Cows Come Home.
Three Can Keep a Secret.
To Thine Own Self Be True.
The Day Will Come.
Lost Sons.
Todd Davis
Ripe: Poems by Todd Davis. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2002.
Some Heaven.
Davis, Todd F.
and Kenneth Womack, eds. “Literature and
Ethical Criticism,” special issue of Style 32.2 (summer 1998). Mapping the Ethical
Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and
Literary Theory.
Denise, Cheryl
I Saw God Dancing.
Omar Eby
Sense and
Incense.
Covenant of
Despair.
The Sons of Adam: Stories of
How Full the River.
Cearfoss: Four Stories.
A Long Dry Season. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1988.
Fifty
Years, Fifty Stories: The Mennonite
Yoder, Carroll D. “A Long Dry Safari.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 589-598.
Lauren Friesen
King David.
Prairie
Songs.
Trans. and ed.,
Hermann Sudermann. The Storm Komrade
Sokrates.
Steven “Reece” Friesen
Pax Avalon: Conflict Revolution (graphic novel.)
Debra Gingerich
Where We Start: Poetry.
Merle Good
Happy as the Grass Was Green.
Today Pop Goes Home. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1993.
Going Places. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1994.
Pinsker, Sanford. “The Mennonite as Ethnic Writer: A Conversation with Merle Good.” Journal of Ethnic Studies 3:2 (Summer 1975): 57-64.
Jeff Gundy
Back Home in
Johnny America Takes on Mother
Nature.
Surrendering
to the Real Thing: The Archetypal Experience of C. Wordsworth Crockett.
Pikestaff, c. 1986.
Inquiries. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 1992.
A Community of Memory: My Days
With George and Clara.
Flatlands.
RapsodyWith Dark Matter. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2000.
Scattering Point: The World in
a Mennonite Eye.
Greatest Hits 1986-2003. No. 195.
Deerflies.
Spoken Among the Trees.
Born, Brad. “Interview with Jeff Gundy.” Mennonite Life [online] 56.3 (Sept. 2001).
Davis, Todd. “Postmodern Rhapsody: Faithful Negotiations in the Poetry of Jeff Gundy.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 507-20.
Froese, Edna. “Voices of Faith in
The
Gundy, Jeff. “Black Coats, Pig-Headed Fathers, and Growing Souls: Some Reflections on the Figure of Harold Bender.” Mennonite Life 54:4 (Dec. 1999).
__________. “Cathedrals, Churches, Caves: Notes on Architecture, History and Worship.” Georgia Review 54.4 (Winter 2000): 673-99.
__________.”A Few Mutterings on Anthologies and Related Maters.” Mennonite Life, June 2004 [on-line].
__________. “Heresy and the Individual Talent” Mennonite Life [on-line] 57.4 (Dec. 2002).
__________. “I and Me Above and in All Things: Versions of the Self in Modern Poetry.” (Diss., Indiana University, 1983).
__________.”If the Earth Is the
Lord’s, Do We Have to Hate the World? Musings on Mennonite People, Places, and Complexes.” In The Measure of My Days, ed. Reuben Z. and Joseph S.
Miller.
__________. “(In)visible Cities, (F)acts of Power, (Hmm)ility, Fathers and
Mothers: Anabaptism, Postmodernity and
Mennonite Writing.” In
Anabaptists and Postmodernity.
Ed. Susan Bresicker-Mast and Gerald Bresicker-Mast.
__________. “Literature,
Nonviolence and Nonviolent Teaching.” In Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and
the Liberal Arts. Ed. J. Denny Weaver and Gerald Bresicker-Mast.
__________. “The
Marriage of the Martyrs Mirror
and the
__________.”New Maps of the Territories: On Mennonite Writing. Georgia Review 57:4 (Winter 2003): 870-88.
__________. “On
Jesus and Teaching.” Higher Learning and the Wisdom of the Cross:
__________. “Peaceable
Poet.” Christian Century,
__________. “Real Presence?” Mennonot 10 (Fall 1997), 12-13.
__________. “Scatter Plots: Depression, Silence, and Mennonite Margins. “ Conrad Grebel Review 18:1 (Winter 2000): 5-27.
__________. “Some Laughter, Some
Work to Do: A Conversation about Poetry with Jeff Gundy. “Trading
Places: Images of Work and Home. Ed. Robert Gundy.
__________. "
‘Truth did not come into the World Naked’: Some Images, Some Stories, and an Immodest
Proposal.” In The Work of Jesus Christ in an Anabaptist Perspective: Essays in Honor
of J. Denny Weaver. Ed. Alain Epp Weaver and Gerald J.
Mast.
__________.”‘What Is It I know?’: Notes Toward an Embodied Gnosis.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 79:1 (January 2005): 69-88.
__________. “Without Heroes,
Without Villains: Identity and Community in Down in My Heart.” In On
William Stafford: The Worth of Things. Ed. Tom Andrews.
“Gundy, Jeff.” Contemporary
Authors 154. Ed. Terrie M. Rooney.
Miller, Ryan. “Tinder
for a Poet’s Heart.” Goshen
College Bulletin, December
2003, 8-9.
Regier, Ami. “Experiments in
Sociolyric Voicing: Dubious Narrators in the Recent Work of Jeff Gundy and
Keith Ratzlaff “ (forthcoming in Mennonite
Quarterly Review, January 2008).
Walzer, Kevin. “Space and Time.”
Wright, David. “Community, Theology and Mennonite Poetics in the Work of Jeff Gundy.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 625-38.
__________. “The Beloved,
Ambivalent Community: Mennonite Poets and the Postmodern Church.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 547-58.
Ann Hostetler
Empty Room
with Light.
ed., A
Cappella: Voices from Mennonite Writers.
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Hinz-Penner,
Raylene. “The
Hostetler, Ann. “Playing the Sacred Harp: Mennonite Literature as Confession.” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1 (Winter 2009):50-58.
Lapp, Rachel. “A Cappella
Anthology Draws on Many Voices in Mennonite Poetry.”
Jean Janzen
Words for
the Silence.
in Three Mennonite Poets. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1986.
The
Upside-Down Tree.
Snake in the Parsonage. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1995.
Tasting the Dust. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2000.
Elements of
Faithful Writing.
Piano in the Vineyard. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2004.
Paper House. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2008.
Davis, Todd. “’This Reckless Journey’: Immanence and Transcendence in the Poetry of Jean Janzen” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008).
Gaff, Clarissa. “Poet of Dust and Light: Jean Janzen’s Life and Art.” Christian Living 49.1 (Jan.-Feb. 2002): 6-9.
Hostetler, Ann. “Coming into
Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the Beginning of Mennonite Poetry in the
Hostetler, Sheri. “Poet Jean Janzen: Honing in on the Real World.”Mennonot 7 (Spring 1996): 5-9.
Janzen, Jean. “The
Hymn Text Writer Facing the Twenty-First Century.” In Music in Worship: A Mennonite Perspective. Ed. Bernie Neufeld.
__________. “Interview and Poetry.” Mennonite Life 55:4 (Dec. 2000). http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/
__________. “The Roots of Poetry.” Christian Living (June 1995): 18-19.
__________. “Words from the Mountain, the Fire and the Stone.” Mennonite Quarterly Review [on-line] 58:4 (Dec. 2003).
__________.,John
Ruth, Rudy Wiebe. “Literature, Place, Language and
Faith: A Conversation” Conrad Grebel Revie (forthcoming).
Kasdorf, Julia. “A Thank You to Jean Janzen.” Festival Quarterly, Spring 1995, 15.
__________. “Tribute to Jean Janzen.” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1 (Winter 2008): 100-02.
Roberts, Laura Schmidt. “The Poetry of Jean Janzen: A Theological Approach.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 667-76.
Rhoda Janzen
Julia Kasdorf
Moss Lotus.
Sleeping
Preacher.
Eve’s
Striptease.
The Body and the Book: Writing
from a Mennonite Life.
Fixing
Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.
and Michael Tyrell, eds. Broken Land: Poems
of
Birky, Beth Martin. “‘Sloughing off Ribs’: Revealing The Second Sex in Julia Kasdorf’s Poetry.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 589-612.
Cruz, Daniel Shank. How Julia Kasdorf Changed My Life: Reflections on Mennonite Identity.
Fisher, John. “Eve’s Striptease: What’s in a Name?” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 579-88.
__________.”Speed the Plow: Julia Kasdorf’s Sleeping Preacher.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 649-66.
Friebert, Stuart. [Review article on Kasdorf and Yusef Komunyaka] Field 48 (Spring 1993): 64-71.
Gaff, Clarissa. “Julia Kasdorf’s Bertha, Body, and Book.” Christian Living 49.3 (April-May 2002): 11-13.
Hostetler, Sheri. “Poet Julia Kasdorf:Straddling Two Worlds with Stories.” Mennonot 4 (Spring 1995): 6-10.
Jackson, Felda Brown.
Kasdorf, Julia. “Bahktin, Boundaries and Bodies.” MQR 71 (April 1997): 169-88.
__________. “Beyond Our Blind Selves.” Mennonot 10 (Fall 1997): 15.
__________. “Bringing Home the Work: Thoughts on Publishing a First Book.” Festival Quarterly (Spring 1992): 7-10.
__________. “An Essential Stranger: Nick Lindsay at Goshen College, 1969-2000” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008.)
__________.”Dreams
of the Written Character.” In The Measure of My
Days, ed. Reuben Z. and Joseph S. Miller.
__________. “Fixing
Tradition: The Cultural Work of Joseph W. Yoder and His Relationship with the
Amish Community of
__________.”Genius and the Verbal
Dance: A Conversation about Language, Writing, and Community with John Ruth.” In The Measure of My Days, ed. Reuben Z. and Joseph L.
Miller.
__________.”Portrait
of the Poet as a Public School Kid.”
In After the
__________. “Readers Write.” Mennonot 5, Summer 1995, 3.
__________. “‘We Weren’t Always
Plain’: Poetry by Women of Mennonite Backgrounds.” In Strangers at Home:
Amish and Mennonite Women in History. Ed. Kimberly D. Schmidt, et al.
__________. “When the Stranger Is an Angel. “Conrad Grebel Review 11 (Spring 1994): 198-201.
__________. “‘Work and Hope’: Tradition and Translation of an Anabaptist Adam.” Mennonite Qarterly Review 69 (April 1995): 178-204.
__________. “Working Away and Homemaking: The Artist in the Service of the Species.” Image 41 (2003): 80-88.
“Kasdorf, Julia.” Contemporary Authors 139.
Ed. Donna Olendorf.
Kindl, Christine. “In This World,
not of It, Poet Bridges Traditional, Contemporary Lifestyles.”
Meyer-Lee, Robert J. “A Defense of Ornament: The Supplement of Literary Language and Julia Spicher Kasdorf’s ‘Catholics’ and ‘Mennonites.’” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008.)
Miller, Susan Fisher. “Memory
Lost and Found: Inspired Forgetfulness in Julia Kasdorf’s The Body and the
Book.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct.
2003), 613-18.
Wagner,
Janet Kauffman
The Weather
Book.
Places in the World a Woman
Could Walk.
Collaborators.
Obscene
Gestures for Women.
The Body in
Four Parts.
Characters
on the Loose.
Rot.
Coniglio, Corine. “Transforming Identity and Performing Ecofeminist Ethics in Novels by Marge Piercy, Joanna Russ, and Janet Kauffman.” (Diss. 1999).
Davis, Todd. “Laboring through The Weather Book: The Value of Work in the Poetry of Janet Kauffman.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 639-48.
D’Erasmo, Stacey. “Daughter Knows
Best.” The Village Voice
Dwyer, June. “Janet Kauffman’s ‘Patriotic’: Woman’s Work.” Studies in Short Fiction 28 (Winter 1991): 55-62.
Gaff, Clarissa. “Writer Janet Kauffman
Comes Home.” Mennonot 11, Fall 1998, 11-12.
Harris, Mark. C. “Janet Kauffman.” Dictionary of Literary
Biography Yearbook: 1986. Ed. J. M. Brook.
Hinnefeld, Joyce. “For the Collaborators (Thoughts on Narrative, on the Works of
Janet Kauffman, on I and She, on Autobiography, on Suicide or Not).”
Hollywood, Amy. “On the Materiality of Air: Janet Kauffman’s Bodyfictions.” New Literary History 27 (Summer 1996): 503-25.
Jackson, Fleda Brow. “
Johnson, Greg. “Some Recent Herstories.” The Georgia Review 44 (Spring-Summer 1990): 278-89.
Kauffman, Janet. “The Fantasy of the Clip Art Farm.” Dissent 49:3 (Summer 2002): 20-22.
“Kauffman, Janet.” Contemporary Authors 43 (new rev.). Ed. Susan M. Trosky. Gale: Detroit, 1994. 237-38.
__________. Contemporary
Literary Criticism 42. Ed. Daniel G. Marowski et al.
Kitchen, Judith. “A Want Ad.” The Georgia Review 44 (Spring-Summer): 256-72.
Lapp, Jessica W. “Embodied Voices, Imprisoned Bodies: Women and Words in Janet Kauffman’s Collaborators.” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 72 (Oct. 98): 615-24.
Lisella, Julia. “Young Americans:
Janet Kauffman Faces the Nation. “The Village Voice
Warren Kliewer
Red Rose and
Gray Cowl.
Moralities
and Miracles.
The
Violators.
Liturgies, Games, Farewells.
Friesen, Lauren. “Tribute to Warren Kliewer.” MQR 72 (Oct. 1998): 691-92.
Hinz-Penner, Raylene. “For Warren Kliewer.” Mennonite Life 53:4 (Dec. 1998): 7.
Kliewer, Warren. “Saved.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 16 (1998): 214-20.
__________. “American Theatrical Taste as Class Warfare.” South Dakota Review 22.1 (Spring 1984): 6-15.
__________. “The Bruised Body.” Cressett
[
__________. “Counter-Trends and Cross Purposes: A Survey of Statements of Purpose of Religious Drama Organizations.” Religious Theatre 5 (1967): 87-102.
__________. “The
Daughters of
__________. “Directors and Direction” in The
Suderman, Elmer F. “Warren Kliewer: Writer and Mennonite.” Mennonite Life 53:4 (Dec. 1998): 8.
“Warren Kliewer in Mennonite Life: A Biography.” Mennonite Life 53:4 (Dec. 1998): 18.
Wiebe, Dallas. “An Elegy for Warren Kliewer.” Mennonite Life 53:4 (Dec. 1998): 9.
David Kline
Friendly
Persuasion.
Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer’s Journal.
Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm.
Kline, David “Amish Farming: The
Galindo, Rene “Person, Place and Narrative in an Amish Farmer’s Appropriation of Nature Writing.” Written Communication. 12:2 (April 1995) 147+.
Kline, David. “God’s Spirit and a
Theology for Living.” In Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist
Perspective on a Sustainable World. Ed Calvin Redekopp.
Yoder, Michael J. “The Very Best of Lives.” Christian Living 49.2 (March 2002). 6-8.
Joanne, Lehman
Morning Song.
Nick Lindsay
Prince of
Glory, Prince of Darkness.
Sweat, Bread and Money.
MaDonna of the Brickbats.Goshen, IN: Pinchpenny Press, 1973.
Tree with
the Broken Rim.
An Oral History of
An Oral History of
The Cowtail
Whip.
Magnificent
Storm.
And
I’m Glad: An Oral History of Edisto Island.
Gundy, Jeff. “Tribute to Nicholas C. Lindsay, Sr.” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1 (Winter 2008): 91-92.
Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. “An Essential Stranger: Nick Lindsay at Goshen College, 1969-2000,” Mennonite Quarterly Review (January 2008).
Evie Yoder Miller
Eyes at the Window. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003.
Beyeler, Jodi H. “Writing What
Might Have Been: The Amish, a Murder and Faithfulness.”
Keith Miller
The Book of Flying. Riverhead Books, 2004.
Levi Miller
Ben’s
The Book of Flying. Riverhead Books, 2004.
Jesse Nathan
Dinner,
or a Deranged Event.
Leonard Neufeld
Raspberrying.
Yarrow.
Car Failure
North of
The Coat is Thin. Telford, PA: Cascadia, 2008.
Neufeld, Leonard. “Notes on the Author: Where Are We? Who Are We?” Mennonite Life (June 2004). On-line.
Keith Ratzlaff
Out Here.Pittsford, NY:
With Ardyth
Bradley and Brenda Hillman. Three Winter Poems.
New Winter
Light.
Man Under
a Pear Tree.
Across the Known World.
Gundy, Jeff. “Separation and Transformation: Tradition Audience for Three Mennonite Poets.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 4 (1986): 53-69.
Regier, Ami. “Experiments in Sociolyric Voicing: Dubious Narrators in the Recent Work of Jeff Gundy and Keith Ratzlaff” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008.)
“A Multimedia Colloquy with Keith Ratzlaff.” Mennonite Life 55:1 (March 2000). http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/
Naomi Reimer
The Token.
Ingrid Rimland
The Wanderers: The Saga of
Three Women Who Survived.
The Furies and the Flame: A
True Story.
The Demon
Doctor.
Lebensraum:
A Novel.
Enns, Mary M. “Ingrid Rimland Turns to Face the Forces that Shaped Her Life.” Mennonite Mirror 8 (Jan. 1979): 6-7.
Juhnke, James C. “Ingrid Rimland, the Mennonites and The Demon Doctor.” The Mennonite 60:1 (March 2005). On-line
Rimland, Ingrid. “The
Wanderers Revisited” in Mennonite Images: Historical, Cultural, and
Literary Essays Dealing with Mennonite Issues. Ed. Harry
Loewen.
Urry, James. “Fate, Hate and Denial: Ingrid Rimland’s Lebensraum.” MQR 73:1 (Jan. 1999): 107-27.
Jane Rohrer
Life after Death.
Hostetler, Ann. “Coming into
Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the Beginning of Mennonite Poetry in the
Betsy Sholl
Changing Faces. 1974.
Appalachian Winter. 1978.
Rooms Overhead. 1986.
The Red
Line.
Don’t
Explain.
Walker, David. “The World Notched and Mutable.” Field 58 (Spring 1998): 65-73.
Sara Stambaugh
I Hear the Reaper’s Song. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1984.
Sign of the Fox. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1991.
Elmer Suderman
What Can We Do Here.
We Must Try Words.
My
Evening
Chore.
With Gerald L. Miller. A Hundred Camels.
Dallas Wiebe
Skyblue the
Badass.
The
Transparent Eyeball and Other Stories.
Going to the
Mountains.
The
Skyblue’s Essays: Fictions.
Our Asian
Journey.
On the Cross: Devotional
Poems.
The Nofziger
Letters.
The Nofziger Letters II.
Hinz-Penner,
Raylene. “
Tiessen, Paul. “Constructing
Narrative: An Introduction to
__________. “Postmodern
Practice and Parody:
__________. “Tribute to
Paul Wiebe
Benedict XVI.
Dead
White Male.
Christian Bride, Muslim
Mosque. Komos
Books. 2008.
David Wright
Lines from the Province. 2000. greatunpublished.com
A Liturgy
for Stones.
with Jim Clemens A
Field of Voice: Hymns for Worship.
Wright, David. “Poetry as Argued Seduction.” Mennonite Life 56.4 (Dec. 2001). On-line.
Yorifumi Yaguchi
Resurrection.
Jesus.
The Poetry of Yorifumi Yaguchi: A Japanese Voice in English. Ed. Wilbur Birky. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2006.
Mizusaki,
Noriko and Mayumi Sako. Poems of War and Peace: Voices from Contemporary Japanese Poets.
The Wing-Beaten Air: My Life and My Writing. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2008.
James D. Yoder
Barbara: Sarah’s Legacy.
Black Spider
over Tiegenhof. Thorndike Press, 2000.
Sarah of the
Border Wars.
The Yoder
Outsiders.
Joseph W. Yoder
Rosanna’s
Boys. 1948; rpt.
Rosanna of
the Amish. 1940; rpt.
Rosanna
of the Amish: The Restored Text. Ed. Joshua R. Brown & Julia Spicher Kasdorf. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2008.
Kasdorf, Julia. “Fixing Tradition: The Cultural Work of Joseph W. Yoder and His
Relationship with the Amish Community of
Kauffman, S. Duane. “Rosanna of
the Amish: Fact or Fiction.”
B. Discussions of Mennonite Literature
Especially of Mennonite
literature in the
of
Mennonite literature, early Dutch Mennonite literature and Mennonite oral
narratives.
For the corresponding bibliography, “Mennonite/s Writing
in
http://www.goshen.edu/%7Eervinb/bibliographies/can-biblio.ht~/Beck
Beck, Ervin. “Ethnic Slurs and Political Correctness.” Mennonot 10 (Fall 1997), 20-21. Response by Sheri Hostetler.
__________. MennoFolk: Mennonite and Amish Folk Traditions.
__________. MennoFolk 2: A Sampler of
Mennonite and Amish Folklore,
__________. “Poet and Reporter Carl Haarer: Transcribing Reality.” Mennonot 11 (Fall 1998): 6-8.
__________. “A
Reader’s Guide to Mennonite Literature.” Gospel Herald
__________. “The Signifying Menno: Archetypes for Authors and Critics.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 72 (Oct. 98): 529-48.
__________ and
John D. Roth, eds. “Mennonite/s Writing in the
Bender, Elizabeth Horsch. “The Anabaptist Novelettes of Adolf Stein and
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl.” MQR 18 (July 1944): 174-85.
__________. “Ernst von Wildenbruch’s Drama, ‘Der Mennonit.’“ MQR 18 (Jan. 1944): 22-35.
__________. “Jung-Stilling and the Mennonites.” MQR 20 (Apr. 1944): 91-97.
__________. “The Novels of Hans Harder and Peter Epp.” MQR 21 (Apr. 1947): 103-13.
__________. “The Portrayal of the Swiss Anabaptists in Gottfried Keller’s ‘Ursula.’“ MQR 17 (July 1943): 136-50.
__________. “Three Amish Novels.” MQR 19 (Oct. 1945): 273-84. [Sabina, Straw in the Wind, Rosanna]
Bender, Mary E.
“The Sixteenth-Century Anabaptists as a Theme in Twentieth-Century German
Literature.” Diss.,
__________. “The
Sixteenth-Century Anabaptists in Literature.”The Recovery of the Anabaptist
Vision. Ed. Guy F. Hershberger.
__________. “Zwingli and the Anabaptists in Caesar von Aux’s Drama Brueder in Christo.” MQR 34 (Apr. 1960): 116-27, 136.
Biescker-Mast, Gerald. “Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist
Persuasion: Radical Confessional Rhetoric
from Schleitheim to Dordreht. C. Henry Smith series, No. 6.
Biesecker-Mast,
Susan and Gerald, eds. Anabaptists and Postmodernity.
Birky, Beth Martin. “When Flesh Becomes Word: Creating Space for the Female Body in Mennonite Women’s Poetry.” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 72 (Oct. 98): 677-88.
Birky, Wilbur. “Tribute to Yorifumi Yaguchi.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 686-88.
__________. “Yorifumi Yaguchi: International Poet and Prophet of Peace.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 559-78.
Born, Brad S. “Writing Out from the Mennonite Family Farm: Gordon Friesen’s Homegrown Grapes of Wrath.” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008).
DeAgostino, Martin. “Editors Present Forum to Mennos.” [on
Mennonot].
Doerksen, Victor. “The Anabaptist Martyr Ballad.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 51 (January 1977): 5-21.
__________. “Ín Search of a Mennonite Imagination.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 2 (1984): 110-11.
Driedger, Kevin. “The Real Amish.” Review of 8 films depicting Amish. Mennonot 12 (Summer 1999): 10-13.
Dyck, E. F. “The Rhetoric of the
Plain Style in Mennonite Writing.” The New Quarterly
[Mennonite/s Writing in
“Elizabeth Coblentz, 66, is Dead. Homespun Amish Columnist.” New York Times,
Enninger, Werner. “The Social
Construction of Past, Present and Future in the Written and Oral Texts of the
Old Order Amish: An Ethno-Semiotic Approach to Social Belief.” Literary
Anthropology: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to People, Signs and Literature.
Fishman, Andrea R. “Because This is Who We Are: Writing in the Amish Community.” Writing in the Community.
Fisher, John J. “Making Something Happen: Toward Transformative Mennonite Peace Poetry” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008).
Friesen, Duane K. Artists,
Citizens, Philosophers: Seeking the Peace of the City: An Anabaptist Theology
of Culture.
Friesen, Lauren. “Dramatic Arts and Mennonite Culture.” Journal of the
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the
__________. “Mennonite Culture and the Dramatic Arts.” Indiana Theatre Journal (Spring 1991).
__________. “A Pox on all Wars: Friedrich Durrenmatt’s Grotesque Comedy Die Wiedertauffer.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 24 (2001): 11-22.
__________.The
Storm Komrade Sokrates by Hermann Sudermann.
__________. “Theatre and Religion.” Conrad Grebel Review 6 (Winter 1989): 11-24.
__________. “Vondel, Sudermann and Kliewer: Stretching the Invisible Canon of Mennonite Dramatic Writing.” MQR 74 (July 2000): 403-21.
Gaff, Clarissa. “The Ted and Lee Schtick.” Christian Living 48.5 (July-Aug 2001): 19-21.
Galindo, Rene. “Person, Place and Narrative in an Amish Farmer’s Appropriation of Nature Writing.” Written Communication 12:2 (April 1995) 147-?.
Gundy, Jeff. “American Mennonite Poetry and Poets: Beyond Johnson’s Dog.” MQR 1 (Jan. 1997): 5-41.
__________. “Humility in Mennonite Literature.” MQR 63 (Jan. 1989): 5-29. With a reply by Shirley Showalter.
__________. “In Praise of Lurkers (Who Come Out to Speak).” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 503-10.
__________. “(In)visible Cities, (F)acts of Power, (Hum)ility, Fathers and
(M)others: Anabaptism, Postmodernity, and Mennonite Writing.” Anabaptists and Postmodernity. Ed.
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__________. “New Maps of the Territories: On Mennonite Writing.” Georgia Review 57:4 (Winter 2003), 870-97.
__________. “Separation and Transformation: Tradition and Audience for Three Mennonite Poets.”Journal of Mennonite Studies 4 (1986): 53-69.
__________. “Some Words on Poetry, Band Camps, Guitars, Gifts, Transgression, Community, Mennonite Art, etc. Mennonite Life 48 (Dec. 1993): 15-16.
Hinz-Penner, Raylene. “Stretching Us: A Report from the 2002 Mennonite/s Writing Conference.” Mennonite Life 57:4 (Dec. 2002). [on-line]
Hostetler, Ann. “The Unofficial
Voice: The Poetics of Cultural Identity and Contemporary
Hostetler, Sheri. “Helen Stoltzfus: Minding the Past and the Present.” Mennonot 7 (Spring 1996): 5-9.
Huxman, Susan Schultz and Gerald Biesecker-Mast. “In the World but not of It: Mennonite Traditions as Resources for Rhetorical Invention.“ Rhetoric and Public Affairs 7:4 (Winter 2004): 539-54.
Janzen, Jean, John Ruth, Rudy Wiebe. “Literature, Place, Language and Faith: A Conversation. . .” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1 (Winter 2008): 72-90.
Janzen, Reinhild. “Conclusion: Thoughts on Mennonite Aesthetic Identity.” Mennonite Furniture. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1991. 201-07. On Mennonite aesthetics as related to ordnung.
Janzen, Rhoda. “Recent Mennonite Poetry: A Review Essay.”Mennonite Quarterly Review 81:1 (January 2007):
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Juhnke, James C. “The Victories of Nonresistance: Mennonite Oral Tradition and World War I.” Fides et Historia 7 (1974): 19-25.
________. “Shaping Religious Community through Martyr Memories.” MQR 73:3 (July 1999): 546-56.
Kadelback,
Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. “Tribute to John Ruth.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 689.
King, Marshall. “Mennonites in
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Kliewer, Warren. “Controversy and the Religious Arts.” Mennonite Life 20 (Jan.1965): 8-11.
Lehman, Daniel W. “The Construction of Mennonite/Amish Character in Novels by John Updike and Denis Johnson.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 77:4 (Oct. 2003), 671-84.
__________. “Graven Images and the (Re)presentation of Amish Trauma.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 72 (Oct. 98): 577-88.
Levertov, Denise. “The Migrant
Muse: Roots and Airplants.” MQR 72 (Oct. 98): 481-90. Keynote
address at the conference, “Mennonite/s Writing in the
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Lowry, James W. “The Rod of Justice in Martyrs’ Mirror.” Mennonite Life 54:3 (Sept. 1999): 21-25.
McCabe-Juhnke, John. “Enacting Gemeinde in the Language and Style of Swiss Volhynian
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Mast, Gerald J. “Research Note: Epistolary Rhetoric and Marital Love in the Martyrs Mirror” (forthcoming in Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2008).
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articles on Poetry, Literature, Dramatic Art, Filmmaking (esp. Vol. 5,
Supplement).
__________. “Literature.” 5:523-25, by Harry Loewen.
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Miller, Reuben Z. and Joseph S., eds. The Measure of My Days: Engaging the Life and
Thought of John L. Ruth.
Nolt, Steven. “Preachers and Poets in Community.” Christian Living (July-Aug. 1998): 24-25.
Parsons, William T. “The
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of External Perspectives on Amish and Mennonite Life, II. Ed.
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Robinett, Jane Hostetler. “The Storyteller’s Gift/The Gift of Story: Narrative Voices in the Writings of S. C. Yoder.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 72 (Oct. 98): 549-64.
Roth, John D. and Ervin Beck, eds. The Migrant Muse: Mennonite/s Writing in the
Ruth, John. “Knowing
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Stoltzfus, Helen. “Theater as Transcendent Practice.” Mennonot 10 (Fall 1997): 13-14.
Suderman, Elmer. “American Mennonite Fiction: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography.” Mennonite Life 22 (July 1967): 131-33.
__________. “Fiction and Mennonite Life.” Midcontinent American Studies Journal 10 (1969): 16-24.
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__________. ‘Mennonite Culture in a Science Fiction Novel.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 49 (Jan. 1975): 53-56.
__________. “Mennonites, the Mennonite Community, and Mennonite Writers.” Mennonite Life 47 (Sept. 1992): 21-26.
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__________. “The
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thesis,
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Suter, Linda. “Dogma and Deed: The Peace Position in Mennonite Fiction, 1914-15.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 65 (Jan. 1991): 69-91.
Tiessen, Hildi Froese. “Beyond the Binary: Reinscribing Cultural Identity in the Literature of Mennonites.” 72 (Oct. 98): 491-502.
__________. “Mennonite Literature
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Van Veen, Mirjam. “The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs.” Sixteenth Century Journal 36.1(Spring 2005): 187-88.
Visser, Piet, et al, eds. From
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Assimilation Processes of a Religious Minority in the
— Piet Visser, “ . . . The Mennonite Image in Literature and Self-Criticism of Literary Mennonites,” 67-82.
— Marijke Spies, “Mennonites and Literature in the Seventeenth Century,” 83-98.
— Piet Visser, “Jan Philipsz Schabaelje . . . and His Wandering Soul,” 99-109.
— Louis Peter Grijp, “ . . . Mennonite Songs from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” 110-32.
Wiebe, Dallas. “Tribute to Elmer Suderman.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 72 (Oct. 98): 690-91.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. “The Mennonite Woman in Mennonite Fiction.” Visions and
Realities: Essays, Poems and Fiction Dealing with Mennonite Issues. Ed. Harry Loewen and Al Reimer.
Wiley, Phoebe. “Silences in Light from Heaven: A Social Commentary.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 72 (Oct. 98): 565-76.
Wolff, Michele
and Werner Enninger. “Devotional Literature: A Comparative Study of the
Mennonites in
Zercher, David L. “Homespun
American Saints: The Discovery and Domestication of the Old Order Amish.” Diss.,
__________. “A Novel Conversion: The Fleeting Life of Amish Soldier.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 72 (April 1998): 141-60.
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C.
Periodicals that include creative writing and literary
criticism by and about Mennonites
Christian Living (from
1954) — Herald Press,
Conrad Grebel Review (from
1983) —
Dreamseeker (quarterly). www.CascadiaPublishingHouse.com/dsm
Festival Quarterly (1974-96)
— Good Enterprises, Intercourse,
Geez: Holy Mischief in an Age of Fast Faith. www.geezmagazine.org
Journal of Mennonite Studies
(from 1983) — Chair in Mennonite Studies,
Mennonite
Life (1954-1999) —
Mennonite Quarterly Review
(from 1927) —
Mennonot (from 1993) —
Sheri Hostetler,
Rhubarb (from 1999) — The Mennonite Literary Society,