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A voice in the land : essays by and about Rudy Wiebe
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ISBN: 0920316077 Year: 1981 Volume: 2 Publisher: Edmonton : NeWest,

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Epic fiction : the art of Rudy Wiebe
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ISBN: 0888640757 Year: 1981 Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press,

The comedians : Hugh Hood and Rudy Wiebe
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ISBN: 077201051X Year: 1977 Publisher: Toronto : Clarke, Irwin,

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Ethical encounters : spaces and selves in the writings of Rudy Wiebe
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ISBN: 9789042037250 Year: 2013 Volume: 166 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

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The problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethics of encountering the other, the book argues that Wiebe’s writings show that the self’s knowledge offers an inadequate basis for ethically valid representations of those encounters. In the search for ethical ways of engaging with alterity, Wiebe’s writings offer new ways of employing silence and the presence of the unknowable as means to explore encounters with alterity. Ethical Encounters shows that dividing Wiebe’s work into two sharply distinct categories of ‘Mennonite’ and ‘First Nations’ writings overlooks important connections between the author’s central works and may seriously hinder the interrogation of narrative engagement with alterity. While such human encounters resonate against ethical strategies of representation, the greatest challenge for the ethics of encounter in Wiebe’s texts arises in encounters with the alterity of space. Ethical Encounters engages with both physical and narrative spaces which are not permanently fixed in landscape or geography, or in human perceptions of place, arguing that the most radical expressions of alterity in Wiebe’s writings emerge in encounters with the spaces of the Canadian North. The study raises questions about the relationship between the self and the other as they concern knowing: what does the self know when it claims to know another person or space? How does the narrating self negotiate the seeming collapse of its own knowledge when it encounters others whose stories cannot be known? Ethical Encounters casts new light not just on Wiebe’s writings but also on how we as authors and readers engage with expressions of alterity which refuse to be transformed into familiar, knowable forms.

Rudy Wiebe and the historicity of the word
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ISBN: 0888642652 Year: 1995 Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press,

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Ethical encounters
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ISBN: 9401209790 9789401209793 1306167566 9781306167567 9042037253 9789042037250 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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The problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethics of encountering the other, the book argues that Wiebe’s writings show that the self’s knowledge offers an inadequate basis for ethically valid representations of those encounters. In the search for ethical ways of engaging with alterity, Wiebe’s writings offer new ways of employing silence and the presence of the unknowable as means to explore encounters with alterity. Ethical Encounters shows that dividing Wiebe’s work into two sharply distinct categories of ‘Mennonite’ and ‘First Nations’ writings overlooks important connections between the author’s central works and may seriously hinder the interrogation of narrative engagement with alterity. While such human encounters resonate against ethical strategies of representation, the greatest challenge for the ethics of encounter in Wiebe’s texts arises in encounters with the alterity of space. Ethical Encounters engages with both physical and narrative spaces which are not permanently fixed in landscape or geography, or in human perceptions of place, arguing that the most radical expressions of alterity in Wiebe’s writings emerge in encounters with the spaces of the Canadian North. The study raises questions about the relationship between the self and the other as they concern knowing: what does the self know when it claims to know another person or space? How does the narrating self negotiate the seeming collapse of its own knowledge when it encounters others whose stories cannot be known? Ethical Encounters casts new light not just on Wiebe’s writings but also on how we as authors and readers engage with expressions of alterity which refuse to be transformed into familiar, knowable forms.

Alberta, a celebration : stories
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ISBN: 0888301677 Year: 1979 Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig,

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Mapping the sacred : religion, geography and postcolonial literatures
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ISBN: 9042015543 9004490221 Year: 2001 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,


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Re-visions of Canadian literature : papers presented at a seminar in Canadian literature held at the university of Leeds, April 1984
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ISBN: 0951030604 Publisher: Leeds : University of Leeds.


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Rewriting the break event : Mennonites & migration in Canadian literature
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ISBN: 0887554482 0887554504 9780887554506 9780887554483 0887557473 9780887557477 9781306203296 1306203295 Year: 2013 Publisher: Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press,

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Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the "Mennonite Commonwealth" in the 1920s. This privileging of a seminal dispersal within the community's broader history reveals the ways in which the 1920s narrative has come to function as an origin story, or "break event," for the Russian Mennonites in Canada, serving to affirm a communal identity across national and generational boundaries. Drawing on recent work in diaspora studies, Rewriting the Break Event offers a historicization of Mennonite literary studies in Canada, followed by close readings of five novels that rewrite the Mennonite break event through specific strains of emphasis, including a religious narrative, ethnic narrative, trauma narrative, and meta-narrative. The result is thoughtful and engaging exploration of the shifting contours of Mennonite collective identity, and an exciting new methodology that promises to resituate the discourse of migrant writing in Canada.

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