| Michael Ondaatje Contributor(s): Spinks, Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719066336 ISBN-13: 9780719066337 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: The first complete critical guide to Michael Ondaatje. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Series: Contemporary World Writers |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.70 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |