Michael Ondaatje / Lee Spinks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinks, Lee, 1963-

Series:

Contemporary world writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943---Criticism and interpretation.

Ondaatje, Michael.

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 280 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive 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 and/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.

Contents:

1 Contexts and intertexts 1

2 The early poems 20

3 The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 48

4 Coming Through Slaughter 79

5 Running in the Family 107

6 In the Skin of a Lion 137

7 The English Patient 171

8 Anil's Ghost 206

9 Critical overview and conclusion 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-272) and index.

ISBN:

9780719066320

0719066328

0719066336

9780719066337

OCLC:

181601603