Selected Critical Writing about Armin Wiebe's Work

 

The Salvation of Yasch Siemens

 

Frank Michael Strauss, 'The Salvation of Yasch Siemens: A Second Reading', Journal of Mennonite Studies Vol. 7, 1989

Henry Wiebe, 'Myth, Ritual, and Language in Armin Wiebe's The Salvation of Yasch Siemens', The New Quarterly Vol. X, No. 1+2, Spring/Summer 1990.

E.F. Dyck, 'The Rhetoric of the Plain Style in Mennonite Writing', The New Quarterly Vol. X, No. 1+2, Spring/Summer 1990.

Magdalene Redekop, 'The Pickling of the Mennonite Madonna', Acts of Concealment: Mennonite/s Writing in Canada, edited by Hildi Froese Thiessen and Peter Hinchcliffe, Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1992 ISBN 0-88898-106-6

Fay Lando, 'Review', Canadian Book Review Annual, 1985

Al Reimer, 'The Funny-Sad World of Yasch Siemens', Mennonite Mirror, May, 1984

Ron Friesen, 'Review' NeWest Review, September, 1984

Robert Kreider, 'Review', Mennonite Life, September, 1984

Ron Robinson, 'Less fertilizer, more weeding', Winnipeg Sun, April 22, 1984

Di Brandt, 'Review', Mennonite Historian, June, 1984

Paul Wilson, 'Review', Books in Canada, June/July, 1984

David Williamson, 'Comic novel totally satisfying', Winnipeg Free Press, April 21, 1984

Brian Geary, 'Wiebe novel deserves its popularity', Pembina Times,

John Parr, 'Delightfully funny first novel comes as a treat', Toronto Star, May 12, 1984

Margaret Loewen Reimer, 'Low German novel is a cultural treasure', Mennonite Reporter, November 12, 1984

Dominique Kaiser, 'Individual and Community: Ideology in Canadian Prairie Novels', Us/Them: Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post-Colonial Literary Cultures, Gordon Collier ed. Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1992
 
 

Murder in Gutenthal
 

Di Brandt, 'Beyond patriarchy and wilderness', Prairie Book World Vol. 2 No. 2 Winter 1991

Birk Sproxton, 'Shaking Loose in the Flatlands', Border Crossings, Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 1992

Maurice Mierau, 'Review' in Prairie Fire, Vol. 12, No. 4 Winter, 1991-92

Edna Froese, 'Skinning the Onion', NeWest Review, Aug/Sept 1992

Janis Svilpis, 'Review', Canadian Book Review Annual, 1992

Elizabeth Anthony, 'Review', Books in Canada, April, 1992

Margaret Mackey, 'Review', Canadian Materials, March 1992

Nancy Wigston, 'Review', Quill & Quire, December , 1991
 
 

 

The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst

 
Rita Donovan, 'The Nation's Salvage Yard', Books in Canada, November, 1995

Edna Froese, 'A Canadian Apocolypse', NeWest Review, April/May 1996

Bill Robertson, '...takes readers on wild ride', Saskatoon StarPhoenix, April 20, 1996

Karen Morrison, 'Why this man isn't quite smiling', Western People, March 7, 1996

Christine Hanlon, 'Review', Zygote, Winter, 1996

Lynnette D'anna, 'Review', Prairie Fire, Winter 1995-96
 
Edgar Schmidt, 'Wiebe ventures into national politics', Mennonite Reporter, January 8, 1996

Todd Besant, 'Wiebe satire twists Canada', Uptown, August 24-30, 1995

Dallas Wiebe, 'Review', Mennonite Life, December 1996

Glen Bergen, 'Review', Journal of Mennonite Studies, Vol. 15, 1997

Michael Mirolla, 'Utopian Fables and Adult Fairy Tales', Event, Vol. 25, No. 3

Bryan N.S. Gooch, 'Politics and Peace', Canadian Literature, Vol. 154, Autumn 1997

Matt Hartman, 'Review', Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996
 


For a more scholarly look at Armin Wiebe's fiction you might investigate doctoral dissertations by Edna Froese (U. of Saskatchewan), Douglas Reimer (U. of Manitoba), Elfrieda Neufeld Schroeder (U. of Waterloo), and Amy D. Kroeker (U. of Manitoba).

Surplus at the Border: Mennonite Minor Literature in English in Canada (Rudy Wiebe, Armin Wiebe, Patrick Friesen, Di Brandt, Sandra Birdsell), Reimer, Leigh Douglas, 1996 University of Manitoba.

To Write or to Belong: The Dilemma of Canadian Mennonite Story-Tellers (Writing, Belonging), Froese, Edna, 1996, University of Saskatchewan.

Fragmented Identity: A Comparative Study of German Jewish and Canadian Mennonite Literature after World War II, Schroeder, Elfrieda Neufeld, 2001, University of Waterloo

Separation from the world: postcolonial aspects of Mennonite/s writing in Western Canada by Amy D. Kroeker. Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2001.

For more information about these theses:http://amicus.nlc-bnc.ca/s4-bin/Main/RouteRqst

 
Battarbee Keith. 2008. "Imaginative outreach: two fictional representations of native-white contact: Armin Wiebe’s Tatsea and Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road." In Avril C. & Paul R. (eds.) At Home in the World: Essays and Poems in Honour of Britta Olinder. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 13-22.