Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing

by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (Editor)

Overview

The papers in this volume represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. Contributors to the volume are Victoria Cook, Marlene Goldman, and Sandeep Sanghera with papers on Anil's Ghost, Beverley Curran, Stephanie M. Hilger, Hsuan Hsu, and Steven Totosy on The English Patient, Glen Lowry and Winfried Siemerling on In the Skin of a Lion, Jon Saklofske on Coming Through Slaughter, and Eluned Summers-Bremner on Ondaatje's Poetry. The papers in the volume are followed by a selected bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatje's oeuvre (Steven Totosy), a list of Ondaatje's works, and the bioprofiles of the contributors to the volume. With the objective to render appreciation of both Ondaatje's writing and thought about his writing, the critical work presented in the volume will prove useful to general readers, critics, and scholars alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557533784
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	03/02/2005
Series:	Comparative Cultural Studies
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's areas of scholarship include comparative literature and cultural studies; comparative media and communication studies; postcolonial studies; migration and ethnic minority studies; film and literature studies; audience studies; and European, US-American and Canadian cultures, among others. His single-authored books include Comparative Cultural Studies and the Future of the Humanities; Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application; and The Social Dimensions of Fiction. His edited volumes include New Work in the Study of World Literatures and in Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies; Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies; Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement; Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies; and Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature.

Zepetnek has published approximately 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Tötösy de Zepetnek is series editor of the Purdue University Press series Books in Comparative Cultural Studies and editor of the Purdue University Press journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje’s Writing, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, by Victoria Cook
Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Altered States of Narrative, by Beverley Curran
Representations of Buddhism in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, by Marlene Goldman
Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Rewriting History, by Stephanie M. Hilger
Post-Nationalism and the Cinematic Apparatus in Minghella’s Adaptation of Ondaatje’s The English Patient, by Hsuan Hsu
The Representation of “Race” in Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, by Glen Lowry
The Motif of the Collector and Implications of Historical Appropriation in Ondaatje’s Novels, by Jon Saklofske
Touching the Language of Citizenship in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, by Sandeep Sanghera
Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, by Winfried Siemerling
Reading Ondaatje’s Poetry, by Eluned Summers-Bremner
Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Questions of History, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Selected Bibliography of Critical Work about Michael Ondaatje’s Texts, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
A List of Michael Ondaatje’s Works
Bioprofiles of Contributors
Index