Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing

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Contents Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje’s Writing 1 Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Victoria Cook Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost 6 Beverley Curran Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Altered States of Narrative 16 Marlene Goldman Representations of Buddhism in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost 27 Stephanie M. Hilger Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Rewriting History 38 Hsuan Hsu Post-Nationalism and the Cinematic Apparatus in Minghella’s Adaptation of Ondaatje’s The English Patient 49 Glen Lowry The Representation of “Race” in Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion 62 Jon Saklofske The Motif of the Collector and Implications of Historical Appropriation in Ondaatje’s Novels 73 Sandeep Sanghera Touching the Language of Citizenship in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost 83 Winfried Siemerling Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion 92 Eluned Summers-Bremner Reading Ondaatje’s Poetry 104 Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Questions of History 115 Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Selected Bibliography of Critical Work about Michael Ondaatje’s Texts 133 A List of Michael Ondaatje’s Works 140 Bioprofiles of Contributors 141 Index 145 ...