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An exploration for the potential of applying Naomi Schor’s unique cultural perspective, especially regarding French culture and its global position as a leader and yet minority relative other cultures, to the unique Mennonite ethnic and sectarian experience.
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| Naomi Schor, (c) Wikipedia, 2000. |
Naomi Schor is representative of that rare international émigré culture establishing itself as nothing more, nothing less, than a full cultural experience unto itself – an island of civilization and creative intellectuality amidst, yet entirely distinct from, the surrounding host culture. Think post-World War II New York, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Paris, contemporary London and Amsterdam.
Participating equally in the French, New York and Jewish cultures, Schor seems to have established a basic French identity while gaining recognition as a Deconstructionist critic of the French literary canon and a pioneer of contemporary gender studies at Yale and Duke Universities.
In her political criticism I found an intriguing and compelling insight Mennonite ethnicities might find useful –her understanding of France’s unique position in global culture (see Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular (1995)).
