Michael Ondaatje / Lee Spinks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinks, Lee, 1963- author.

Series:

Contemporary World Writers

Contemporary world writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ondaatje, Michael.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Series editor's foreword

List of abbreviations

Chronology1. Contexts and intertexts

2. The early poems

3. The collected works of Billy the Kid

4. Coming through slaughter

5. Running in the family

6. In the skin of a lion

7. The English patient

8. Anil's ghost

9. Critical overview and conclusion

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Available through ManchesterHive.

MUP 2020 titles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781847795854

1847795854

9781781703113

1781703116

9781847793478

1847793479

OCLC:

818847459