TransCanada Literary Reading & Performance Series
Rudy Wiebe
"Narrating Mennonite Canada: History and/as Literature."
Friday, February 27th, 2009
TransCanada Institute
9 University Ave.
Guelph, ON
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On Friday, February 27th, 2009, TransCanada Institute hosted a one-day colloquium entitled "Narrating Mennonite Canada: History and/as Literature." The colloquium brought together Canada's preeminent Mennonite writer, two-time Governor General Award-winner Rudy Wiebe, with two of Canada's leading scholars on Mennonite literature and Mennonite history, Dr. Hildi Tiessen of the University of Waterloo, and Dr. Royden Loewen, Chair of Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg, and focused on how the experiences of Russian Canadians have been represented in literary and historical texts.
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