Rewriting the Break Event
Author | : Robert Zacharias |
Publisher | : Studies in Immigration and Cul |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 0887557473 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780887557477 |
Rating | : 4/5 (477 Downloads) |
Download or read book Rewriting the Break Event written by Robert Zacharias and published by Studies in Immigration and Cul. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.