Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art

by Magdalene Redekop

Book Overview

Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now include writers Patrick Friesen, Sandra Birdsell, Di Brandt, Sarah Klassen, Armin Wiebe, David Bergen, Miriam Toews, Carrie Snyder, Casey Plett, and many more. A similar renaissance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887558577
• ISBN13: 9780887558573
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.9"