Those viewers left wondering what happened to the women inWomen Talkingafter the movie ended may turn to the true events for some guidance. While the movie is based on the fiction book by Miriam Toews, the story is inspired by events that took place in Bolivia in a Mennonite community. The...
Miriam ToewsPublished by Faber UK/ Bloomsbury US 2 April 2019240 pp, hardback, $24Reviewed by Elsbeth LindnerClick here to buy this bookThe acknowledgements to award-winning novelist Toews’ latest, short work of fiction include the following statement: ‘I wish to acknowledge the girls and ...
Read more: Plot summary | Synopsis Director Sarah Polley (directed by) Writers Sarah Polley (screenplay by) | Miriam Toews (based upon the book by) Producers Dede Gardner (produced by) (p.g.a.) | Jeremy Kleiner (produced by) (p.g.a.) | Frances McDormand (produced by) (p....
Review of Women Talking —Miriam ToewsSabrina Vlz
Summary In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. Drama Directed By: Sarah Polley Written By: Sarah Polley, Miriam Toews Women Talking...
This article attends to the ways in which Canadian Mennonite novelist Miriam Toews' Women Talking crafts a feminist theological parable of women envoicing and incarnating pacifism in the context of a purportedly pacifist colony devastated by patriarchal violence. I argue that the...
doi:10.24256/IDEAS.V9I1.1770Hariati Dongoran, Ida EpiMandala, Robby SatriaIDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching & Learning, Linguistics & Literature
Steffler, MargaretCanadian Literature