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Silence and Rage in Miriam Toews's Mennonite Novels
by Dirks, Rita
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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.
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- Lexington Books Brand
- Apr 17, 2024 Pub Date:
- 179364747X ISBN-10:
- 9781793647474 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 9.31 in * 0.71 in * 6.24 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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