September 2018 – slklassen

Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (2)

September 30, 2018

Read part 1 of Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo here. If you are a Mennonite who has read Miriam Toews’ Women Talking, then the big question on your mind will be same one that’s on mine: Will the Mennonite community forgive Miriam Toews for having committed the grievous sin of conflating two different groups of Mennonites … More Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (2)

Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (1)

September 30, 2018

In a note before the main text of Miriam Toews’ new novel,Women Talking, the author writes that the book is “a reaction through fiction of these true-life events, and an act of female imagination.” The events in question were a series of horrific rapes that occurred in a Bolivian Mennonite colony in the first decade … More Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (1)

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Month: September 2018

Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (2)

Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (1)