scholarly journals The Enigma of Identity: A Reading of Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Le Simplegadi ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Pier Paolo Piciucco
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Anil's Ghost

scholarly journals Imagining Sri Lanka

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derick Ariyam
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Shyam Selvadurai ◽  
The Family ◽  
Anil's Ghost

<p>Analyzes the works of three Sri Lankan expatriates, the writers, Shyam Selvadurai and Michael Ondaatje, and the artist, M.I.A., giving particular attention to Selvadurai's Funny Boy and Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost, and The Cinnamon Peeler. Though all three have been charged as "inauthentic" due to their dislocated positions, uncovers the various productive and complicated ways Sri Lanka has been configured by those outside its shores.</p>

scholarly journals Modalities of representation and perception in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Sigrid Renaux
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Anil's Ghost

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p113Este estudo analisa a maneira pela qual a interdependência da representação e percepção da realidade é exemplificada e questionada em O Fantasma de Anil, de Michael Ondaatje (2000). Neste trabalho de literatura de resistência, através de um narrador onisciente, entramos não apenas nos espaços geográficos e na história cultural do Sri Lanka, mas nos encontramos participando da luta diária do povo para sobreviver, identificar e buscar justiça para os muitos mortos neste conflito entre grupos étnicos e o governo. Esta fragmentação da estrutura narrativa - lançando dúvidas sobre as relações conflituosas estabelecidas entre o presente e o passado dos personagens, entre valores ocidentais e orientais em relação ao conceito de verdade, a busca de identidade e amor perdidos - destaca ainda o intercâmbio entre representações e percepções da realidade.

Invisible Victims, Visible Absences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lipson Freed
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Film ◽  
Anil's Ghost

Chapter 3 explores the haunting traces that remain in the wake of political disappearance in the novel Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje, and the American film Missing (1982), directed by Costa-Gavras. Although ostensibly dedicated to recovering the identities of individual victims, both works ultimately subordinate the mimetic particularity of these individuals to their larger thematic projects, insuring their enduring relevance long after the conflicts they depict have been consigned to history. While these thematic frameworks allow these works to become meaningful—and ethically consequential—beyond the particular contexts that inspire them, they also exclude entire categories of victims from the compass of their recuperative efforts.

Michael Ondaatje by Lee Spinks (review)

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashmi Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje

Unofficial Wars: The Politics of Disappearance

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-651
Author(s):  
Gabriele Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
State Terrorism ◽  
Anil's Ghost ◽  
History Of

This article examines Michael Ondaatje’s 2001 novelAnil’s Ghost, placing it within the context of a history of disappearance as a form of state terrorism on a global level. It contests the controversial response that Ondaatje’s work received, which alleged lack of political engagement in the novel on account of what critics saw as its ‘Westernised approach’. Instead, what is argued here is thatAnil’s Ghostpresents a particular form of ‘working through’, first by approaching disappearances through the embedded lives and subjectivities of targeted populations, and second by using the specific historical and local setting in Sri Lanka to explore the politics of disappearances as a global phenomenon.

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