Franke JamesMar 12, 2023

Miriam Toews’s Oscars moment exposes a complicated relationship with her Mennonite hometown
Steinbach, Man., still largely shuns the author whose stories of #Mennonite life scandalized the devout. Now, a movie based on her novel Women Talking is a Best Picture nominee."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-miriam-toews-mennonite-steinbach-women-talking/

#WomenTalking #shunning

Miriam Toews’s Oscars moment exposes a complicated relationship with her Mennonite hometown

Steinbach, Man., still largely shuns the author whose stories of Mennonite life scandalized the devout. Now, a movie based on her novel Women Talking is a Best Picture nominee. The Globe visited the town to see what people are talking about

The Globe and Mail
Show threadFranke JamesMar 12, 2023
"Mr. Unger, who reads The New Yorker profile aloud to his Grade 11 students – it takes two full periods – says there are two main critiques of Ms. Toews in Steinbach: “That she is airing our dirty laundry, and that her writing is all lies.” Those things can’t both be true, Mr. Unger laughs. “She can be lying or telling our truths. But not both.”
#books #oscars #MiriamToews
Show threadFranke James
"Ms. Toews says she’d rather be whipped: “#Shunning is a cruel, barbaric punishment – it sends shivers down my spine. It cuts individuals off from their family and community, and designates them as unworthy of human contact. It happens all the time in different ways, and it’s destructive and sad and ridiculous and hateful.” #MiriamToews
Mar 12, 2023 at 6:47pmWeb
Show threadFranke JamesMar 12, 2023
“That is the tyranny – the climate of fear, of punishment, that has been created,” said Ms. Toews. “The reverberations of that are endless. That culture of control and of shaming – it’s in our DNA, like it exists on a cellular level.”
#shunning #MiriamToews
#oscars