Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction

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Synopsis

Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction is a comprehensive study of the novels of the Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet, Michael Ondaatje. This survey of the Booker Prize-winning novelist’s works locates him as a powerful voice that urges globalization and multiculture in a world that is closing its borders. It reconnoitres Ondaatje’s search for a homeland by cracking open the core of his evocative, inventive, and innovative concepts that undergird his art of storytelling. The contributors in this volume examine themes such as literary cosmopolitanism, Sri Lankan identity, diasporic identity, race and racism, home and belonging, trauma in the Sri Lankan civil war, war games, and uncertainty theory.An important contribution to Ondaatje studies, the book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of Sri Lankan literature, diasporic and world literatures, South Asian and Canadian studies, cultural studies, postcolonial fiction, and history.

Book details

Author:
Edited by Julie Banerjee Mehta and Harish C. Mehta
ISBN:
9781040143919
Related ISBNs:
9781040143865, 9781032865874, 9781032865881, 9781003528227
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2024-09-12
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2025
Copyright by:
selection and editorial matter, Julie Banerjee Mehta and Harish C. Mehta 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Social Studies