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• W316353198 abstract "Abstract: Contemporary poetry by writers of Mennonite heritage has been receiving unprecedented attention from both the Mennonite and the literary communities. This essay discusses the role of the poet in relation to Mennonite culture and seeks to define Mennonite poetry as ethnic literature in a broader sense. Drawing on a model of culture articulated by Stuart Hall, suggest that the of the poet can portray complex internal differences within Mennonite culture that are not articulated in official constructions of Mennonite identity. Furthermore, Mennonite poets can be viewed as cultural translators who thrive at cultural crossroads. Poems by Mennonite writers Sheri Hostefler, Jean Janzen and Julia Kasdorf illustrate the ways that ethnic poetry simultaneously addresses Mennonite readers and non-ethnic readers, challenging the former to re-examine their cultural heritage and the latter to see their own humanity in the representation of ethnicity. ********** During coffee hour one Sunday morning at church shortly after began editing an anthology of Mennonite poets, fell into a conversation about the poetry of Jean Janzen with a Mennonite businessman who has a Ph.D. in English. He asked me whether knew that Janzen's father had been a Mennonite minister. I find her poems more meaningful than her father's sermons, however, he confided. At that moment, coffee cup in hand, participating in one of the informal but vital rituals of Mennonite community, saw with new clarity the seemingly ambiguous role of the poet in the Mennonite community. Poetry is the unofficial voice. It is what one might think during the sermon, but never say aloud. Only after the sermon is over, sometimes long afterwards, are such private thoughts recollected in tranquility and shaped in language by the poet for another audience: individual readers of poetry. Such readers of poetry are increasing among U.S. Mennonites, and poets from Mennonite origins are, for the first time, contributing to a sense of collective Mennonite identity both inside and outside of the Mennonite community. Janzen has written a number of poems about her father. In she shows the difference between her and her father's relationship to language as well as the difference between their delivery of the to an audience. This juxtaposition mirrors the relationship of poet and preacher in the Mennonite community: Saturday afternoon, father in his study hunts and pecks the Order of Service. can still see it, the invocation, hymn of praise, the growing columns of words. Rock and fortress, he say tomorrow, wings over us. And set on a table between the pillars is his sermon, a shivering until morning. Keys clatter, the return bar swings down to the benediction, his arms over the people. They stand like these inked letters, surrounded by silence, a whiteness that vibrates like the ceiling in his study, which sometimes rises and opens, books towering on all sides--My Utmost for His Highest, The Cloud of Unknowing--the pages like slippery steps, and forever turning. (1) As the vehicle for representing her father's sermons, Janzen has chosen the private moment of composition (the silence in which the already written sermon awaits an audience like a pitcherful shivering until morning) rather than the performative moment of delivery. Thus she recasts her preacher-father as poet (albeit of the predictable) and herself as predictor of the poem's effect on the audience. Although she writes about one whose vocation is to voice the official word of the church, she renders him in a private act, that of composition. Yet his public sermons are delivered to an audience who will stand like these inked letters/surrounded by silence. The official word, delivered from the pulpit, requires the audience to mute individual thought, marginalizing all that is not centered in the sermon. …" @default.
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• W316353198 title "The Unofficial Voice: The Poetics of Cultural Identity and Contemporary U.S. Mennonite Poetry" @default.
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