
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?
Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje
Robert Lecker(Herausgeber*in)
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Erschienen am 1. September 2023
488 Seiten
978-0-2280-1997-8 (ISBN)
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Beschreibung
Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, and In the Skin of a Lion, set in 1930s Toronto, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and winner of the Canada Reads competition in 2002. But Ondaatje has been writing for over fifty years, and his innovative works include some of the most accomplished poetry in the English-speaking world.
Taking its title from a question in his poem "Tin Roof," Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? reassesses Ondaatje's writing and the role of the poet, from his troubled explorations of the self-reflexive artist to his most recent novels. Comprehensive in both approach and coverage, this new collection offers groundbreaking analysis informed by an understanding of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre, placing early poetry collections like The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do alongside the full range of his novels and his extensive work as a literary editor. The book highlights the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues that have become increasingly apparent in Ondaatje's work. Contributors explore key interests that have reappeared and been rethought across his fiction and poetry: the construction of identity; the nature of memory and its relation to family origins and history; the human body as a site of contestation and struggle; the contrast between Eastern and Western values and the Southeast Asian diaspora; the writer's responsibility in depictions of war, psychic trauma, and genocide; and an ongoing fascination with the visual and the media of photography and film.
An eclectic celebration of an iconic author, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? offers an authoritative reference point for scholars and students of literature and reveals new facets of a major author to his readers around the world.
Taking its title from a question in his poem "Tin Roof," Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? reassesses Ondaatje's writing and the role of the poet, from his troubled explorations of the self-reflexive artist to his most recent novels. Comprehensive in both approach and coverage, this new collection offers groundbreaking analysis informed by an understanding of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre, placing early poetry collections like The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do alongside the full range of his novels and his extensive work as a literary editor. The book highlights the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues that have become increasingly apparent in Ondaatje's work. Contributors explore key interests that have reappeared and been rethought across his fiction and poetry: the construction of identity; the nature of memory and its relation to family origins and history; the human body as a site of contestation and struggle; the contrast between Eastern and Western values and the Southeast Asian diaspora; the writer's responsibility in depictions of war, psychic trauma, and genocide; and an ongoing fascination with the visual and the media of photography and film.
An eclectic celebration of an iconic author, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? offers an authoritative reference point for scholars and students of literature and reveals new facets of a major author to his readers around the world.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Chock full of complex theoretical language, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? will likely appeal to academic audiences (and determined CanLit enthusiasts). But general readers may find this insightful analysis a welcome supplement to their continued enjoyment of Ondaatje's enduring works." Literary Review of Canada "Lecker brings together the work of scholars, essayists, poets and novelists concerned with some aspect of the work of the prolific Sri Lankan-Canadian diasporic author Michael Ondaatje. Comprising a fine introduction to Ondaatje's oeuvre and insightful essays on the novels, narrativity, style, cinema, even on Ondaatje's work as an editor, this volume will be an important resource for scholars working on diasporic and Canadian literatures. Recommended. " ChoiceWeitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Canada
Kanada
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Dateigröße
2,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-2280-1997-8 (9780228019978)
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Person
Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University and author of Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent.
Inhalt
- Cover
- DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY AND WRITE?
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- POETRY
- 1 "dancing new / on this terrific ancient earth": Michael Ondaatje's Astonishing Poetics of Renewal
- 2 Restlessness, Vertigo: Michael Ondaatje's Poetry
- 3 Strange Familiars: Dogs in Michael Ondaatje's Early Poetry
- 4 The Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje's "The Cinnamon Peeler"
- 5 The Pivot: Michael Ondaatje's Tin Roof
- VISUALITY
- 6 "The illusion of the unexceptional": Michael Ondaatje as Editor
- 7 Michael Ondaatje in the Cinema
- 8 "Landscapes and stories flung into branches": The Photography of Affect and Transnational Mobility in the Writings of Michael Ondaatje
- INTERMEDIALITY
- 9 Creases and Broken Glass: Michael Ondaatje's Narrative and Intermediality
- 10 Intermedial Aesthetics in The Cat's Table
- NOVELS AND NARRATIVES
- 11 Fascination and Liminality in Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter
- 12 "The animal out of the desert": The Nomadic Metaphysics of Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion
- 13 Love, War, and the Other in Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient as the Dialogic Field
- 14 Reconfiguring an East-West Dialectic of Trauma in Michael Ondaatje's War Novels: The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, and Warlight
- 15 Wartime Ghosts: War and the Liminal in The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, and Warlight
- ENDINGS
- 16 The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Difference and Postcolonial Melancholia
- 17 Casualties of Love
- 18 Ondaatje's Late Style
- 19 "That eventual stranger": Toward Unrecognizability in Warlight
- 20 Teaching Ondaatje: Learning to Live
- Works by Michael Ondaatje
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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