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Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country's ethnic conflict. By focussing on two distinctive and representative writers, both Burghers, yet with different personal histories, Brusasco confronts issues of cartography, history, and language, all contributing to a specific definition of identity. Both Ondaatje and Muller are outsiders, the former because of his diasporic existence, the latter because of his excentricity within the reality of a divided country whe

Ondaatje, Michael, --- Muller, Carl, --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work. The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje’s career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time. It also offers an original reading of his writing which significantly revises conventional accounts of Ondaatje as a postmodern or postcolonial writer. As the fullest account of Ondaatje’s work to date, Spinks’s approach draws on a range of postcolonial theory and, as well as being a landmark in Ondaatje scholarship, makes a distinctive contribution to debates about postcolonial literature and the poetics of postmodernism.

Ondaatje, Michael, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 820 "19" ONDAATJE, MICHAEL --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--ONDAATJE, MICHAEL --- 820 "19" ONDAATJE, MICHAEL Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--ONDAATJE, MICHAEL --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael‏ --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- Ondaatje, Michael (1943-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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Authors, Canadian --- Poets, Canadian (English) --- Ecrivains canadiens --- Poètes canadiens-anglais --- Biography --- Biographies --- Biographie --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- 820 "19" ONDAATJE, MICHAEL --- -#KOHU:CANADIANA 2000 --- Canadian authors --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--ONDAATJE, MICHAEL --- Ondaatje, Michael --- 820 "19" ONDAATJE, MICHAEL Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--ONDAATJE, MICHAEL --- Poètes canadiens-anglais --- #KOHU:CANADIANA 2000 --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Biography. --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael‏ --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael

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This book is a study of the current debates about identitarian thought in relation to contexts of postcolonial resistance and reconstruction. How is identity theorized, constructed and claimed in the context of postcolonial political and cultural struggles against imperial hegemony? How is our understanding of identity inflected by the strengthening alliance between postcolonial theory, on the one hand, and the postmodern pull towards ‘de-hegemonization’ on the other? This study assesses different postcolonial ‘relocations’ in cultural and political discourse and highlights the political uncertainties and theoretical fractures that the persistent appeal to Western frameworks of knowledge engenders. This book aligns three white settler nations, namely, Canada, Australia and South Africa, from a socio-political and cultural point of view. It proposes a study of their twin positions as distinctive avatars of postcolonial experience and as illustrative models of a general postcolonial condition. Furthermore, it raises issues of identity and identity politics on the level of literary discourse as well as in terms of national context. The novels of Canadian Michael Ondaatje, Australian David Malouf, and South African Nadine Gordimer present rich thematic parallels; they engage with particular white settler national issues as well as more general postcolonial questions.

820 <100> --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- English literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- Politics in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialism --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Political science in literature --- Identity in literature --- History and criticism --- Gordimer, Nadine --- Malouf, David, --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Гордимер, Надин --- גורדימר, נדין --- Cassirer, Nadine Gordimer --- Gkorntimer, Nantin --- Godimŏ, Nadin --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael‏ --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- ONDAATJE (MICHAEL), 1943 --- -MALOUF (DAVID), 1934 --- -GORDIMER (NADINE), 1923 --- -LITTERATURE DU COMMONWEALTH --- Identité (psychologie) --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- POSTCOLONIALISME --- Postcolonialisme --- Critique et interprétation --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Dans la littérature --- COMMONWEALTH

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Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential “nervous conditions,” caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in criticism. Although Rushdie has argued that they primarily write back to the imperial centre(s), in their signature novels, The English Patient , Midnight’s Children and The Famished Road , they respond to their conflicting cultural and ethnic heritages by dramatizing characters in traumatic struggles with belonging and affiliation. As a way of coping with their identity crises, most characters succumb to the political rhetoric of communalism. The central characters, however, are driven by a powerful desire for self-sufficiency. Yet, since this individualism clashes with their need for communal sharing, they enact a form of creative destruction of their singular selfhood and communal identity. They experience a certain plurality of singular selfhood and participate in forms of “inoperative communities,” which elicit bonds without ties and coexistence without the necessity of a common work and essence.

Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Communities in literature. --- Liberty in literature. --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Community in literature --- Rushdie, Salman --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- Okri, Ben --- Okri, Ben. --- Rushdie, Salman. --- Anton, Joseph --- Raśdī, Salamāna --- Rüşdı̂, Salman --- Rushdī, Salmān --- Ruždi, Salman --- Salamāna Raśd --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Okri, Benjamin --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- Salamāna Raśdī --- Рушди, Салман --- רושדי, סלמאן --- רושדי, סלמן --- رشدى، سلمان --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authenticity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy.