Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Michael Ondaatje, Paperback / softback Book

Michael Ondaatje Paperback / softback

Part of the Contemporary World Writers series

Paperback / softback

Description

Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre.

Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work. The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje’s career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time.

It also offers an original reading of his writing which significantly revises conventional accounts of Ondaatje as a postmodern or postcolonial writer. As the fullest account of Ondaatje’s work to date, Spinks’s approach draws on a range of postcolonial theory and, as well as being a landmark in Ondaatje scholarship, makes a distinctive contribution to debates about postcolonial literature and the poetics of postmodernism. -- .

Information

Other Formats

Save 4%

£14.99

£14.39

 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Contemporary World Writers series  |  View all