Writing In-between Life and Death: Contemplation as Death Ritual in Michael Ondaatje's "Death at Kataragama"

Michael Ondaatje's collection of poetry, Handwriting, uses writing as a metaphor for Sri Lanka's pre-alphabetic, multi-modal forms of writing, thought, and culture. A prose poem in the collection, "Death at Kataragama," presents a speaker contemplating death. Kataragama, both a g...

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Main Author: Liberty Kohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2010-10-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/687