Surplus at the Border
Mennonite Writing in Canada
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2002
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888012753
- Publish Date
- Oct 2002
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
The essays in Surplus at the Border examine the ways in which Mennonite writers have claimed their "territory" of literature within the contemporary writing culture.
About the author
Doug Reimer was born and raise in southern Manitoba, and spent ten years teaching in northern Manitoba before moving to Winkler. An avid fisherman and cross-country skier, Reimer teaches English Literature at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Older Than Ravens and Surplus at the Border: Mennonite Writing in Canada. He currently lives in Winnipeg where he is part of a blue-grass trio called The Doug & Jess Band.