Driving home one nightįrom a board meeting, post her abandonment and still recovering from a House, ultramodern decor and 'no children'-has 'left

Husband-with whom she has built an upscale life complete with its lake The narrative assumes its starting point when Janzen's As Janzen's memoir bears out, if that love arises fromįamily, we find it all the more affirming.

Successful, beautiful or intelligent we strive to be or have become, weīear an indelible desire to belong somewhere and to be unconditionally Even more than this, the overarching theme that emergesįrom this memoir has a universal appeal. In this manner, she also speaks for an ever-expanding demographic within Writing from the site of her disenfranchisement in the Christian church. She lances the tension between tradition and acculturation that many inĬontemporary culture face. The reader will no doubt identify with Janzen when Of wit and stereotype, Janzen identifies herself as a Mennonite toįashion her memoir's satirical texture-one that has proven to hold She opens her story with self-admonition: 'he year I turnedįorty-three was the year I realized I should never have taken my Narrative in mennonite in a little black dress: a memoir of going home. Rhoda Janzen, a professor of English literature, teacher ofĬreative writing and notable poet, has turned her pen to personal Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home. APA style: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home.Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home.' Retrieved from 2011 Mennonite Historical Society 01 Jun. MLA style: 'Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home.' The Free Library.

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