Critical Perspectives

Volume 10 Number 2

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• Description

  • This issue examines Michael Ondaatje’s fiction, poetry and films from fresh and interesting angles. The critical essays that make up the issue put us in touch with a powerful subtle and humane imagination that translates itself in versatile ways into the themes, characters and poetics of Ondaatje’s work.
• Contents

  • EDITORIAL

    • Shirley Chew and Chandani Lokuge

  • ARTICLES

    • Robert J.C. Young, An Evening with Michael Ondaatje
    • Milena Marinkova, Framing Fame:

      Michael Ondaatje’s Cinema of Affection and Liminality

    • Catherine Bates, Dancing Discard:

      Michael Ondaatje’s Elimination Dance

    • Jeffrey D. Orr, Photographic Empathy: Michael Ondaatje’s

      Running in the Family and W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

    • Aparna Halpé, Fielding Ondaatje:

      A Brief Look at the ‘Canadian’ Response

    • Gail Jones, A Poetics of Sense: Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
    • Gillian Roberts, The Reading Lesson Revisited:

      Educating the English Patient

    • Chandani Lokuge, The Return Journey and the Aesthetic of Rasa in

      Michael Ondaatje’s Poetry

    • Ashley Halpé, Anil’s Ghost as Symphonic Poem: Viewed in the Context of

      Michael Ondaatje’s Re-engagements with Sri Lanka

    • Natalie Diebschlag, Spectral encounters:

      Divisadero and the ethics of reading

    • Aritha van Herk, Ondaatje, Thieves, Thievery, and Theft:

      Fevered Handwriting

  • REVIEWS

    • by John McLeod, Clare Barker, Caroline Herbert

  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS