![]() ![]() Likewise, the present essay is itself intended as an archiving endeavor.Īs is the case with so many other aspects of North American Mennonite literature, the first sustained queer episode in Mennonite literature occurs in Rudy Wiebe's fiction. Just as Braun's essay does, much queer Mennonite literature explicitly recognizes the function archives play in helping to make visible and to sustain marginalized communities. Kate Eichhorn posits that "sometimes an archive's story may be as important as its contents." Such is the case with the queer Mennonite literary archive built over the past three decades because of how it has had to fight to make itself visible as a response to Mennonite homophobia. This introduction to the bibliography traces these roots and their subsequent fruit as a way to offer a story of queer Mennonite literature that may not be visible in the bibliography alone. Perhaps surprisingly, the bibliography also shows that the roots of queer subject matter in Mennonite literature stretch back at least a quarter century before Braun's essay. The present bibliography reveals this boom, which has led to queer writing becoming an important subfield of Mennonite literature. ![]() In a 2008 personal essay, Jan Guenther Braun explains that she writes as a starting point for the creation of "queer Mennonite academic history." Happily, in the decade since her essay, the body of queer Mennonite writing that Braun calls for has come into being, encompassing both creative writing and literary criticism. ![]()
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