Michael Ondaatje
Lee Spinks
Abstract
This is a comprehensive study of Michael Ondaatje's entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet, it 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 ac ... More
Keywords: Michael Ondaatje, poet, Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, English Patient, postcolonial theory, postcolonial literature, poetics of postmodernism, Skin of Lion, intertexts
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719066320 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719066320.001.0001 |
