Silence and Rage in Miriam Toews’s Mennonite Novels

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book focuses on six of Miriam Toews’s Mennonite novels—Swing Low: A Life (2000), A Complicated Kindness (2004), Irma Voth (2011), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), Women Talking (2018), and Fight Night (2021)—, so called because they portray fictional and autobiographical events, set in Mennonite communities in Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia. Rita Dirks argues that through the exploration of difficult subjects such as the physical and emotional abuse of teenaged girls, women, and children , Toews gives a voice to victims and survivors who are otherwise silenced in that sequestered culture. In addition, Dirks shows that in the Mennonite novels, Toews’s rage at the injustices experienced by her protagonists becomes a transformative art that gives a voice to all stories, especially those of women within authoritative patriarchal communities that openly proclaim pacifism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-17
Mått:159 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793647474

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Mer om författaren

Rita Dirks is associate professor of English at St. Mary’s University, Calgary.

Recensioner i media

In this first book-length study of Miriam Toews’ “Mennonite” novels, Rita Dirks offers patient, deeply grounded, and insightful readings of a body of work that has broken open often-silenced areas of Mennonite women’s experience. One result, as Dirks shows, is open expression of rage—but she also details the great resources of wisdom, resilience, humor, and solidarity in these novels.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: A Memoir of a ‘weak and effeminate’ Man. Swing Low: A Life of DignityChapter 2: Plautdietsch and Silence in A Complicated KindnessChapter 3: Irma Voth: Art, Shunning (Again), and Domestic ViolenceChapter 4: All My Puny Sorrows: A Defense of Art and the Right to DieChapter 5: A Hayloft of Their Own: From Rape to Rage in Women TalkingChapter 6: Fight Night: Healing and Writing for Generations to Come

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