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

The redemptive spaces of storytelling in postcolonial literature. ανά Lim, Rebecca Sim Ming.

“…This thesis uses Walter Benjamin’s “The Storyteller” as an impulse to examine the redemptive spaces of storytelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea, Preeta Samarasan’s Evening is the Whole Day and Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost. In particular, I look at these authors’ representations of the workings of memory, time and space in response to the various forms of displacements, crises and traumatic encounters experienced by the characters within the texts. …”
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"Speaking politically, not politics": an Adornian study of "apolitical" twentieth-century fiction ανά Philippou, E

“…Coetzee; Margarita Karapanou; Michael Ondaatje) whose literature bear the burden of political extremity (respectively, South African apartheid, the 1970s Greek military junta, and the Sri Lankan civil war), and is at loggerheads with the literature of political commitment emerging from each of those situations. …”