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| The first book-length treatment of the flowering of 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 in the Fog 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. Walker combines revised versions of path-breaking critical
essays such as "Humility in Mennonite Literature" and "American Mennonite Poetry and Poets" with
Gundy's visionary and lyrical explorations of Mennonite writing and identity, including several chapters
written especially for this book "Do we all imagine that we have the clarity others lack, when in truth
we are all just walkers in the same fog?" Gundy asks. "We might then determine to listen to others' reports
of the weather and the landscape very carefully, to learn of that which is obscured in the fog from where we
walk, but clearer from another point of view." Copyright 2005 Cascadia Publishing House | |