The Body and the Book - Writing from a Mennonite Life: Essays and Poems

About the author

Julia Spicher Kasdorf grew up in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two collections of poems, Sleeping Preacher (1992) and Eve's Striptease (1998), and a biography, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American (2002). She is the coeditor, with Joshuah Brown, of Yoder's 1940 classic Rosanna of the Amish (2008), and, with Michael Tyrell, of a poetry anthology, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (2007).

Summary

A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdor focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Spicher (Associate Professsor Kasdorf, Kasdorf Julia Spicher
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2009
• EAN: 9780271035444
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03544-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Keystone Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / General, RELIGION / Essays, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, Poetry by individual poets, Literary essays, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches, Poetry / poems by individual poets