Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature

by Robert Zacharias

Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the "Mennonite Commonwealth" in the 1920s. This privileging of a seminal dispersal within the community's broader history reveals the ways in which the 1920s narrative has come to function as an origin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887557473
• ISBN13: 9780887557477
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"