Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje's Fiction

Herausgeber: Mehta, Julie; Mehta, Harish

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781032865881
• ISBN-10: 1032865881
• Artikelnr.: 70522925

Autorenporträt

Julie Banerjee Mehta holds MA and PhD degrees in English Literature and South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto, where she taught courses on the works of Michael Ondaatje and where she conceptualized and taught the Chancellor-endowed course on Asian Literatures and Cultures in Canada. Currently, she is a guest faculty at Loreto College, Kolkata. Her translation of Tagore's play Dak Ghar/Post Office was performed by Pleiades Theatre, Toronto, in 2010, to critical acclaim and earned her the title of "One of Sixteen Most Influential South Asians in Canada." She is the author of Dance of Life: The Mythology, History, and Politics of Cambodia Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen. Her research essays have appeared in books by Oxford University Press, University of Toronto Press, and Rodopi. Harish C. Mehta has an MA and a PhD in History from McMaster University, Canada, in the history of American foreign relations and Southeast Asia. He did graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and taught history at McMaster, the University of Toronto, and Trent University. He is the author, most recently, of People's Diplomacy of Vietnam: Soft Power in the Resistance War, 1965-1972, and of three books on Cambodian history. His research articles have appeared in International History Review, Diplomatic History, Peace and Change, The Historian, and History Compass. He has twice won the Samuel Flagg Bemis research award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is currently editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Rising Asia Journal (www.rajraf.org).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In Search of Home PART ONE: THE 'LOST' FATHERLAND 1. "Gothic
Detection" in Anil's Ghost 2. Intimate Words: Intertextuality in Running in
the Family PART TWO: MYTH, RACE, AND SUBVERSION 3. Idiosyncratic Histories:
Revisionist Mythopoetics in The English Patient 4. Subversive Art and
History in The English Patient and Divisadero 5.The Colonized Sikh Warrior
in The English Patient PART THREE: SONGS FROM THE 'HOOD' 6. Jazzing Up the
Facts in Coming Through Slaughter: Ondaatje's Fictional "Archive" 7.
Predatory Violence and Abuse of State Power in Billy the Kid 8. An
Unprivileged Place: Journeying Selves in The Cat's Table PART FOUR: TRAUMA
IN SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY 9. An Invented Past: Representation of
History in Anil's Ghost 10. Connected by Tunnels of Light: Reading Care in
Anil's Ghost PART FIVE: WAR, GAMES, POKER, AND UNCERTAINTY 11.Teens,
Trolls, and Toxic Games in Divisadero 12. Triad of Chance, Risk, and
Security: Postwar Uncertainty in Warlight