Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mennonite History and/as Literature -- ch. 2 Gelassenheit or Exodus: My Harp Is Turned to Mourning and the Theo-Pedagogical Narrative -- ch. 3 Dreaming das Volklein: Lost in the Steppe and the Ethnic Narrative -- ch. 4 Individual in the Communal Story: The Russlander and the Trauma Narrative -- ch. 5 Strain of Diaspora: The Blue Mountains of China and the Meta-Narrative