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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Ondaatje"”.
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Mural visions: viewing histories in the works of Michael Ondaatje
… in the literary works of poet/novelist Michael Ondaatje and seek to understand the ways in which the visual as practice and discourse can be seen to exercise power. I argue that images are crucial participants in the politics of knowledge production and that a reading of images must always …
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Negotiating the boundaries of gender : construction and representation of women in the work of Michael Ondaatje
… and text-based exploration of Michael Ondaatje's construction and representation of female characters in four fictional works: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, and The English Patient. The primary focus is on the demarcating lines or …
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From the Postcolonial to the Transnational: Issues of Identity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje, is set in present day Sri Lanka against the background of civil war. This dissertation addresses some of the issues of identity that are raised in the narrative of Anil's Ghost through a close analysis of the text, paying particular attention to the way in which …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
… by Kazuo Ishiguro, Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman, Red Dust by Gillian Slovo and Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah. My theoretical framework combines genre theory and postcolonial theory. By combining two critical strands I demonstrate that …
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Discerning the body: a sacramental hermeneutic in literature and liturgy
… In conversation with Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje, I discuss the importance of touch in defining meaning. With A Map of Glass, by Jane Urquhart, I look at bodies as tactile maps and geographies of memory. Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels, leads me to a discussion of the place of artistic …