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Anil's Ghost

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2001-01-10
ISBN : 0375412670
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (375 Download)

Download PDF or read online Anil's Ghost Book by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet.

Anil's Ghost

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-01
ISBN : 1448112834
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (448 Download)

Download PDF or read online Anil's Ghost Book by Michael Ondaatje and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : A breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient. 'There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph' Guardian Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of the murder campaigns sweeping the island. When Anil discovers that the bones found in an ancient burial site are in fact those of a much more recent victim, her search for the terrible truth hidden in her homeland begins. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity - a story driven by a riveting mystery.

Critical Essays on Canadian Literature

Author : K. Balachandran
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Release Date : 2002-12-31
ISBN : 9788176253741
Pages : 190 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (253 Download)

Download PDF or read online Critical Essays on Canadian Literature Book by K. Balachandran and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :

Modern South Asian Literature in English

Author : Paul Brians
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 9780313320118
Pages : 268 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (32 Download)

Download PDF or read online Modern South Asian Literature in English Book by Paul Brians and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Introduces a significant Indian, Pakistani, or Sri Lankan writers, includes: brief biographical backgrounds, an overview of the author's major works, and the explication of a single work. Critical perspectives are offered, as well as background information enabling readers to view each work as a window to South Asian culture.

Bodies and Voices

Author : Anna Rutherford
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 9042023341
Pages : 459 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (42 Download)

Download PDF or read online Bodies and Voices Book by Anna Rutherford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The articles investigate representations in literature, both by the colonizers and colonized. Many deal with the effect the dominant culture had on the self image of native inhabitants. They cover areas on all continents that were colonized by European countries.

Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing

Author : Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN : 9781557533784
Pages : 158 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (533 Download)

Download PDF or read online Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing Book by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Annotation It is an event in literary criticism and culture scholarship that we have new studies on the work of such an original writer as Michael Ondaatje. In this collection, some of the most perceptive scholars working in cultural and literary studies examine Ondaatje's texts - his poetry, his novels In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient (novel and film), and Anil's Ghost.

Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

Author : Seiwoong Oh
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-12
ISBN : 1438120885
Pages : 401 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (438 Download)

Download PDF or read online Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature Book by Seiwoong Oh and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Traces American writers whose roots are in all parts of Asia, including China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East.

The New Order of War

Author : Bob Brecher
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 9042029412
Pages : 258 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (42 Download)

Download PDF or read online The New Order of War Book by Bob Brecher and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Far from hearalding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of "actually existing communism" served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however; is how we might understand and respond to these new wars. This book offers a new approach. Its distinctive and multidisciplinary range of perspectives, offering quite different views. is based on the conviction that if we are to begin to get to grips with this central feature of our 21st Century lives, we have to go beyond an unhelpful moralism on the one hand and a defeatist appeal to "human nature" on the other. Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton, UK. He is author of Forture and The Ticking Bomb (Wiley 2007). Getting What You Want? (Roudedge 1997), editor of several volumes and has published numerous articles in moral and applied philosophy, liberalism and higher education. At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries seeks to encourage and promote cutting edge interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects and inquiry. By bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, the aim is to engage in conversations that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive Inter-Disciplinary dialogue enables people to go beyond the boundaries of what they usually encounter and share in perspectives that are new, challenging, and richly rewarding. This kind of dialogue often illuminates one's own area of work, is suggestive of new possibilities for development, and creates exciting horizons for future conversations with persons from a wide variety of national and international settings By sharing cross-disciplinary insights and perspectives, ATI/PTB publications are designed to be both exploratory examinations of particular areas and issues, and rigorous inquiries into specific subjects. Books in the series are enabling resources which will encourage sustained and creative dialogue, and become the future resource for further inquiries and research

The Politics of Postsecular Religion

Author : Ananda Abeysekara
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 9780231142908
Pages : 356 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (142 Download)

Download PDF or read online The Politics of Postsecular Religion Book by Ananda Abeysekara and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Abeysekara contends that democracy--along with its cherished secular norms--is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. The belief that ethnic-political identities--such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, and Tamil--can be critiqued, neutralized, improved, and changed, even if they remain inseparable from their genocidal pasts, is rooted in democracy's messianic promise. Abeysekara compels us to consider our ethical-political legacies not as "problems" but as "aporias" in the Derridean sense--contradictions or impasses that cannot be resolved. Abeysekara locates distinct aporias in our modernity and situates them in the places and cultures of America, France, England, Sri Lanka, India, and Tibet. He presents concrete examples of religion in public life and calls into question the projects of refashioning the aporetic premises of liberalism and secularism.

Not Needing All the Words

Author : Annick Hillger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2006
ISBN : 0773560068
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (773 Download)

Download PDF or read online Not Needing All the Words Book by Annick Hillger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Reading selected texts by Michael Ondaatje, including the novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient and the poem "Birch Bark," Annick Hillger demonstrates how his writing both answers and challenges attempts to delineate the idea of a Canadian national self. She sets Ondaatje's work within the context of theoretical and philosophical ideas, developing the notion of a "literature of silence" concerned with finding a ground for self beyond the realm of language.

Empathy and the Novel

Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-04-19
ISBN : 9780195343601
Pages : 274 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (343 Download)

Download PDF or read online Empathy and the Novel Book by Suzanne Keen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, yet its role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. Keen surveys these debates and illustrates the techniques that invite empathetic response. She argues that the perception of fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy in part by releasing them from the guarded responses necessitated by the demands of real others. Narrative empathy is a strategy and subject of contemporary novelists from around the world, writers who tacitly endorse the potential universality of human emotions when they call upon their readers' empathy. If narrative empathy is to be taken seriously, Keen suggests, then women's reading and responses to popular fiction occupy a central position in literary inquiry, and cognitive literary studies should extend its range beyond canonical novels. In short, Keen's study extends the playing field for literature practitioners, causing it to resemble more closely that wide open landscape inhabited by readers.

Prizing Literature

Author : Gillian Roberts
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN : 1442642718
Pages : 281 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (442 Download)

Download PDF or read online Prizing Literature Book by Gillian Roberts and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country's cultural capital. Discussions about culture, national identity, and citizenship are particularly complicated when the honorees are immigrants, like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, or Rohinton Mistry. Then there is the case of Yann Martel, who is identified both as Canadian and as rootlessly cosmopolitan. How have these writers' identities been recalibrated in order to claim them as 'representative' Canadians? Prizing Literature is the first extended study of contemporary award winning Canadian literature and the ways in which we celebrate its authors. Gillian Roberts uses theories of hospitality to examine how prize-winning authors are variously received and honoured depending on their citizenship and the extent to which they represent 'Canadianness.' Prizing Literature sheds light on popular and media understandings of what it means to be part of a multicultural nation.

Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing

Author : Milena Marinkova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-07-14
ISBN : 1441183388
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (441 Download)

Download PDF or read online Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing Book by Milena Marinkova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian author's aesthetics. Contributing to current debates about affect and representation, ideology critique and the artwork, trauma and testimony, this book uses the concept of the haptic to demonstrate how Ondaatje's multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This is where Ondaatje's micropolitics, often misconstrued as ideologically suspect aestheticism, emerges: a praxis that intimates how one can write and read politically with a difference.

In Stereotype

Author : Mrinalini Chakravorty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-16
ISBN : 023116596X
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (231 Download)

Download PDF or read online In Stereotype Book by Mrinalini Chakravorty and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereoptypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues such commonplaces are crucial to defining cultural identity and ethics in contemporary literature, as well as ideas about otherness, and shows how the stereotypeÕs ambivalent nature exposes the many crises of liberal development in South Asia. Chakravorty considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to show how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material and psychic investments of contemporary imaginative texts: the colonial novel, the transnational film, and the international best-seller. Probing contexts that range from the independence of the Indian subcontinent to poverty tourism, civil war, migration, domestic labor, and terrorist radicalism, Chakravorty builds an interpretive lens for reading literary representations of cultural and global difference. More generally, she reevaluates the contemporary fascination with transnational novels and films that manufacture global differences by staging intersubjective encounters between cultures through stereotypes.

Canada : Images D'une Société Post/nationale

Author : Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. International Conference
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 9789052014852
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (14 Download)

Download PDF or read online Canada : Images D'une Société Post/nationale Book by Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. International Conference and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Has Canada moved beyond the nation state into the world of the post-national? To what extent have fixed notions of Canadian nationhood been replaced by a more global, decentralized sense of identification? Is nationhood (or post-nationhood) best expressed by statelessness and exile or by belonging? Or can Canadian national identity in fact fruitfully coexist with the post-national consciousness? These are some of the issues covered by this volume, issues seen from a range of perspectives - literary, cultural, political and economic. In the literary sphere the national/post-national debate is explored both through canonical writers, such as L. M. Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, and Marie-Claire Blais, and through recent First Nations, Asian-Canadian, African-Canadian, Ukrainian-Canadian and Quebec writing. The political and economic range is equally diverse, covering such topics as immigration policy, multiculturalism, Canadian-American relations, tourist imaginings of the Canadian North, the Canadian city, and Quebec nationalism. The book brings together 27 original articles from international scholars and creative writers, offering both European and Canadian perspectives. Six articles in French focus specifically on the francophone sphere.

A History of Canadian Literature

Author : W. H. New
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 9780773525979
Pages : 496 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (525 Download)

Download PDF or read online A History of Canadian Literature Book by W. H. New and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : "New offers an unconventionally structured overview of Canadian literature, from Native American mythologies to contemporary texts." Publishers Weekly A History of Canadian Literature looks at the work of writers and the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form. W.H. New explains how – from early records of oral tales to the writing strategies of the early twenty-first century – writer, reader, literature, and society are interrelated. New discusses both Aboriginal and European mythologies, looking at pre-Contact narratives and also at the way Contact experience altered hierarchies of literary value. He then considers representations of the "real," whether in documentary, fantasy, or satire; historical romance and the social construction of Nature and State; and ironic subversions of power, the politics of cultural form, and the relevance of the media to a representation of community standard and individual voice. New suggests some ways in which writers of the later twentieth century codified such issues as history, gender, ethnicity, and literary technique itself. In this second edition, he adds a lengthy chapter that considers how writers at the turn of the twenty-first century have reimagined their society and their roles within it, and an expanded chronology and bibliography. Some of these writers have spoken from and about various social margins (dealing with issues of race, status, ethnicity, and sexuality), some have sought emotional understanding through strategies of history and memory, some have addressed environmental concerns, and some have reconstructed the world by writing across genres and across different media. All genres are represented, with examples chosen primarily, but not exclusively, from anglophone and francophone texts. A chronology, plates, and a series of tables supplement the commentary.

The World in a Grain of Sand

Author : Nivedita Majumdar
Publisher : Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-05-25
ISBN : 1788737482
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (788 Download)

Download PDF or read online The World in a Grain of Sand Book by Nivedita Majumdar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time. It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.