Mapping the Woman’s Body in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient by Lilijana Burcar

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AUTHORIAL IDENTITY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING OF MICHAEL ONDAATJE: THEORETICAL ASPECTS by Khoma, Vasylyna

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THE ENIGMA OF IDENTITY: A READING OF ANIL’S GHOST BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE by Pier Paolo Piciucco

“…In this paper I aim at analysing the composite, postcolonial, multicultural and transnational nature of identity emerging in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, most prominently in the protagonist Anil Tissera. …”
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Michael Ondaatje's reinvention of social and cultural Myths: In the Skin of a Lion by Branko Gorjup

“…From the beginning of his writing career in the early sixties until the recent publication of In the Skin of a Lian (1987), the Canada of Michael Ondaatje had represented one thing: a geographical locale which he has selected as his home but which, fundamentally, had failed to engage his imagination. …”
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DIASPORA AS A HETEROTOPIA IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S NOVEL “IN THE SKIN OF A LION” by Vasylyna Khoma

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MICHAEL ONDAATJE’NIN THE ENGLISH PATIENT ADLI ESERİNDE SAVAŞ VE KİMLİK by Aydın Görmez, Shwana Qadir Perot

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Issues of Identity in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (1992) and Anil’s Ghost (2000) by Ibrahima LO & Alfred DIOP

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IDENTITY FORMATION OF THE CHILD MIGRANT IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL “THE CAT’S TABLE” by Vasylyna I. Khoma

“…The current article examines the process of identity formation in the autobiographical novel “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer. The novel focuses on the childhood and youth stages, which are critical periods for transitioning into adulthood. …”
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Writing In-between Life and Death: Contemplation as Death Ritual in Michael Ondaatje's "Death at Kataragama" by Liberty Kohn

“…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. …”
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Rebuilding fictions: Violence and the aesthetic in Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth by Lanham, A

“…A major strand of postmodern fiction epitomized by the U.S. and Canadian novelists Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth obsessively depicts both the violent collapse of lives and societies and the often post-traumatic process of trying to put those lives back together and start over again. …”

Ongoing Objectification, Marginalization and Sexualization of Women in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Divisadero: Old Patterns, New Disguises by Lilijana Burcar

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Colonial Empires of the East and the Eest: Images of the <i>Other</i>, from Tacito to David Malouf, from Salman Rushdie to Michael Ondaatje by Elvira Gòdono

“…This chaotic antithesis in Michael Ondaatje’s pages lets Sri Lanka’s childish ghosts float amidst stories of peregrination and in search of a Promised Land. …”
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“All of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us”: History and (Post)memory in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Anil’s Ghost by Urszula Gołębiowska

“…Michael Ondaatje’s fictionalized memoir Running in the Family (1982) and his novel Anil’s Ghost (2000) are thematically concerned with a return to the country of birth and a confrontation with the past, both individual and collective. …”
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Reconstructing a Life: Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden by Dumescu Patricia-Dorli

“…Michael Ondaatje’s novel Coming through Slaughter is a fascinating attempt to bring literature and oral history together in order to recreate Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden’s mysterious life. …”
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Book Review: MIHAELA MUDURE, “ALTE LECTURI CANADIENE / OTHER CANADIAN READINGS”. CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2020, 195 P. by Octavian MORE

“…And yet, on the literary stage, Canadian voices have been an integral part of a more convincing narrative, as demonstrated by the internationally-acclaimed names of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro or Michael Ondaatje, to mention but a few. …”
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Book Review: MIHAELA MUDURE, “ALTE LECTURI CANADIENE / OTHER CANADIAN READINGS”. CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2020, 195 P. by Octavian MORE

“…And yet, on the literary stage, Canadian voices have been an integral part of a more convincing narrative, as demonstrated by the internationally-acclaimed names of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro or Michael Ondaatje, to mention but a few. …”
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FLOATING/TRAVELLING GARDENS OF (POST)COLONIAL TIME by Carmen Concilio

“…These floating, hybrid gardens of the Anthropocene precede the real travelling gardens of both Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table (2011) and Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy (2008-2015), two authors who both indirectly and directly tell the story of botanical gardens in Asia, and of plant and seed smuggling and transplantation (“displacement”) also hinting at their historical and economic colonial implications. …”
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FROM REAL TO REEL: HOLLYWOOD’S CULTURE OF ORIENTALISM IN AND AROUND THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Beyazıt AKMAN

“…Although the movie has mostly been acclaimed by movie critics and audiences, its loyalty to the original work has much been questioned since the movie was based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje. However, it cannot be said that much has been written regarding the movie’s Orientalist undertones. …”
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Poetry for Students. Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry / by Ruby, Mary K., editor 652226, Milne, Ira Mark, editor 652037, Gale Group (Online service) 651863

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Word Havens: Reading One’s Way out of Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Lucia Opreanu

“…By focusing on a variety of reading experiences gleaned from a selection of novels ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip and Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and targeting acts of solitary communion with narrative as well as illicit seminars, informal book clubs and impromptu public readings, the analysis intends to highlight the extent to which literature can provide more than a mere pastime or intellectual challenge to its most vulnerable readers. …”
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