Walker in the FogOn Mennonite Writing by Jeff Gundy |
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Winner of the 2006 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
"Walker gives us a provocative view of recent tendencies in Mennonite literary culture through the singular voice of a writer who helped create it. The book includes comments on most of the Mennonite writers who have shaped this emerging tradition. It is a remarkable contribution to the interpretation of Mennonite literature and the Mennonite church in a postmodern age." - Ervin Beck, author, MennoFolk: Mennonite and Amish Folk Traditions
The first book-length treatment of the flowering American Mennonite writing of the last two decades, this book combines careful scholarship with Jeff Gundy's frank, sometimes sardonic, often funny, deeply engaged commentary on Mennonite writing and culture. Walker explores important Mennonite and related authors - Patrick Friesen, William Stafford, Julia Kasdorf, Jean Janzen, Keith Ratzlaff, and others - as well as crucial issues and themes, such as power and authority, myths of origin and possibility, heresy and community.
About the Author
Jeff Gundy teaches at Bluffton University in Ohio and has published four books of poems as well as Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye and A Community of Memory (nonfiction).