Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing  

by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

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" It is an event in literary criticism and culture scholarship that we have new studies on the work of such an original writer as Michael Ondaatje. In this collection, some of the most perceptive scholars working in cultural and literary studies examine Ondaatje's texts -- his poetry, his novels In the Skin of a Lion , The English Patient (novel and film), and Anil's Ghost . Winner of numerous literary prizes including the Booker Prize, Ondaatje is a prolific and internationally renowned Canadian writer who immigrated from Sri Lanka via England and so it is appropriate that many of his works deal with the problems of identity, migration, hybridity, disappearing borders, transculturality, the reconstruction of history, and the storytelling of the 'in-between,' matters of increasing currency in today's world. The poetic language of Ondaatje's writing are superbly analyzed in the articulate papers in this volume and they live up to the best traditions of literary and cultural analysis. The editor of the volume, comparative culture and media scholar (and Canadianist) Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, is to be commended for furthering the international perspective in this valuable addition to Ondaatje criticism."  Joseph Pivato, Athabasca University ( Canada )

The papers in the volume represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. Contributors to the volume are Victoria Cook, Marlene Goldman, and Sandeep Sanghera with papers on Anil's Ghost , Beverley Curran, Stephanie M. Hilger, Hsuan Hsu, and Steven Tötösy on The English Patient , Glen Lowry and Winfried Siemerling on In the Skin of a Lion , Jon Saklofske on Coming Through Slaughter , and Eluned Summers-Bremner on Ondaatje's poetry. The papers in the volume are followed by a selected bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatje's oeuvre (Steven Tötösy), a list of Ondaatje's works, and the bioprofiles of the contributors to the volume. With the objective to render appreciation of both Ondaatje's writing and thought about his writing, the critical work presented in the volume will prove useful to general readers, critics, and scholars alike.

6 x 9

180 Pages

Paperback

ISBN 1-55753-378-4

$34.95