Problematization of History in the Select Fiction of Michael Ondaatje

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi A K
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje by Lee Spinks (review)

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashmi Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje

Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard

1997 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Danielle Fuller ◽  
Winfried Siemerling ◽  
Leonard Cohen ◽  
Hubert Aquin ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nicole Brossard ◽  
Hubert Aquin ◽  
Leonard Cohen

Chimeras of Form

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aarthi Vadde
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Zadie Smith ◽  
Political Communities

In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde vividly illustrates how modernist and contemporary writers reimagine the nation and internationalism in a period defined by globalization. She explains how Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith use modernist literary forms to develop ideas of international belonging sensitive to the afterlife of empire. In doing so, she shows how this wide-ranging group of authors challenged traditional expectations of aesthetic form, shaping how their readers understand the cohesion and interrelation of political communities. Drawing on her close readings of individual texts and on literary, postcolonial, and cosmopolitical theory, Vadde examines how modernist formal experiments take part in debates about transnational interdependence and social obligation. She reads Joyce's use of asymmetrical narratives as a way to ask questions about international camaraderie, and demonstrates how the "plotless" works of Claude McKay upturn ideas of citizenship and diasporic alienation. Her analysis of the contemporary writers Zadie Smith and Shailja Patel shows how present-day issues relating to migration, displacement, and economic inequality link modernist and postcolonial traditions of literature. Vadde brings these traditions together to reveal the dual nature of internationalism as an aspiration, possibly a chimeric one, and an actual political discourse vital to understanding our present moment.

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