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The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War

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About the Book

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia.

As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler's German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John.

The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.

About the Author :
Hans Werner teaches Mennonite Studies and Canadian History at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is the author of Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities. John Werner was his father.

Review :

Beautifully written and engaging, The Constructed Mennonite offers an unflinching look at how we present ourselves to those around us.

--Rachel Waltner Goossen "Mennonite World Review"

This book is a richly textured and layered story of the author's father. At its basic level, it is a biography--a fascinating story of a man who lived through a remarkable era of European history and lived to tell the stories. Then, Hans Werner reflects on the role his father's memory played in shaping an reshaping the stories of his past, how memory selected what was included and excluded, how memory adapted to different contexts, and how memory was influenced by gender. In addition, Werner reflects on the importance of both storytelling and memory in the way his father constructed his identity; hence, the title of the book--The Constructed Mennonite.

--John J. Friesen "Journal of Mennonite Studies"

Those interested in understanding the conflicted responses of Soviet Mennonites to Stalin's terror and World War II should read The Constructed Mennonite.

--Colin Neufeldt "Mennonite Historian"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780887557415
  • Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Sub Title: History, Memory, and the Second World War
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0887557414
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 329 gr


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