Michael Ondaatje haptic aesthetics and micropolitical writing Milena Marinkova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marinkova, Milena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ondaatje, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian authors aesthetics. Contributing to current debates about affect and representation, ideology critique and the artwork, trauma and testimony, this book uses the concept of the haptic to demonstrate how Ondaatjes multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This is where Ondaatjes micropolitics, often misconstrued as ideologically suspect aestheticism, emerges: a praxis that intimates how one

Contents:

Acknowledgements Table of contents Introduction The multiple senses of the haptic A touch affectionate but troubling Michael Ondaatje: Writing politically with a difference Notes Chapter I: Haptic Writing as Affective Cinema Hapticizing the 'I'

'eye' in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Coming through the haptic cut: History in the making and Coming through Slaughter Humble Affections of the Cinematic: Michael Ondaatje's Films of the 1970s Notes Chapter II: Micropolitical Hapticity and Witness Writing 'Touching into words' the intimacy of witness writing in Running in the Family Witnessing the body

The body witnessing in Anil's Ghost Notes Chapter III: Haptic Writing and Micropolitical Betrayals 'A falling together of accomplices' in In the Skin of a Lion: Writing, history, betrayalBetween the grope of the hand and the sight of a rifle: The betrayal of propinquity in The English Patient Betrayals of the Cinematic: Anthony Minghella's The English Patient Notes Epilogue: The Haptic in Literature: Hiding, Playing, Educating Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-197) and index

ISBN:

9781441114037

1441114033

9781472542649

1472542649

9781336212923

1336212926

9781441183385

1441183388

OCLC:

745866671