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1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hart
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Research Company ◽  
Dorothy Livesay

scholarly journals Poetological dominants of historical memory in works of asian immigrant writers in Canada

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Nataliia Ovcharenko
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Asian Immigrant ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Arts And Humanities

Poetological dominants of historical memory in works of asian immigrant writers in Canada The paper highlights the development of literature related to the historical memory concept of Canadian immigrants from Asian countries. It covers the period of the late 20th ― first decades of the 21st century. The complex of problems, analyzed and structured within the semantic field of the modern historical memory concept, is often applicable both to Canada and Ukraine. The research broadens the knowledge of Canadian literature introducing the names of researchers and writers new to Ukrainian literary studies. The paper overviews the interpretations of Canadian Asian immigrants’ dispositions within the paradigm of modern arts and humanities. The focus is on the issues of double identity, the coherence of ethnic and North American mentality. The researcher generalizes the poetical aspects of the works by Ying Chen, Kim Thui, Joy Kogawa, Michael Ondaatje. Attention has been paid to the definition of discursive parameters, which allow shaping the concept of historical memory in ‘mosaic’ Canadian society; the issues of identities; the main markers of Canadian historical strategies; and versatile patterns of literary texts. The participation of Canada in the global dialog, which involves its culture and literature, plays probably the most important role in the debate on Canadian polyethnic literature. Regional, national, and international features demand some combined definition. The research explicates modern historical memory strategies in the context of conventional territory with its specific spatial and temporal characteristics. The author demonstrates the main local views on peculiarities of the Canadian literary process of the 2nd half of the 20th ― early 21st century and analyzes literary texts. All the novels show profound connection between representatives of Canadian literature, who may seem essentially different but manifest temporal and subjective similarity. The paper lists the names of authors working within the ‘double vision’ formula suggested by N. Frye. This approach focuses on the elements of North American culture pertaining to Canadian multicultural world structure as well as traditional cultures of the writers’ ancestral homelands. The paper also considers the generation paradigm, structured on the basis of social and historical algorithms and psychological markers. The types of generational modes (Kim Thuy, Michael Ondaatje) in literature were combined through a common denominator ― canadianness ― based on a double identity.

scholarly journals Evidence of Reading in Reading Michael Ondaatje’s Novel “The English Patient”

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Mr. M. Rajapandi
Keyword(s):  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
Academy Award

The main aim of the book reading is to gain knowledge and contains numerous sources of information. Reading makes a person to be depth on subjects. Literature is a unique creation by human to expose, understand, to share self experience. Reading offers human to escape from the present, detects from problems and responsibilities in day to day lives. Moreover, reading literature exercise into the world of imagination. Everyone enjoy stories, it offers a reader to meet with many characters and to journey into their world, in attempting with their happy and unhappy. A person will be creative by reading a lot in perceiving truth, making valuable decision, dealing with complex situation in life and also reading helps one to use the logic and to reason well. Reading books continually make more satisfied with life and happiness; it makes one to feel the activities and the involvement by them in life are worthwhile. Michael Ondaatje works characterize in countless ways the best of contemporary Canadian Literature in English. Michael Ondaatje writing focuses not only on Canadian Literature but focus on the world prospect. This paper highlights on the evidence of reading books in Michael Ondaatje’s novel “The English Patient”, the joint winner of Booker Prize for fiction in 1992 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1996.

Knister, (John) Raymond (1899–1932)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kait Pinder
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dorothy Livesay ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Canadian Nationalism

Raymond Knister was one of Canada’s earliest modernist writers. Although Knister is best known as an imagist poet, he wrote and published work in a wide range of genres, including poetry, novels, short stories, book reviews, literary criticism, and one play. Born and raised in the farmlands of southern Ontario, Knister was called the ‘farmer who was poet too’ by fellow Canadian poet Dorothy Livesay. Knister’s writing career, which began in the 1920s, coincided with an age of Canadian nationalism, and despite the fact that Knister found it easier to publish in the USA. than in Canada, he was a great supporter of developing Canadian literature. Like other writers of this time, such as Morley Callaghan and A. J. M. Smith, Knister insisted upon the development of a unique national literature that would remain connected with international literary movements, like modernism, but would be neither an imitation of other literatures or produced for the ephemeral tastes of the market. Knister’s writing career was cut short when he drowned on 29 August 1932, while on holiday with his wife at Lake St Clair in Ontario.

Major Authors: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coral Ann Howells
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
Postcolonial Identity ◽  
Post War ◽  
Robertson Davies ◽  
Publishing Practices

This chapter discusses the works of three Canadian novelists best known internationally: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. The careers of Davies, Atwood, and Ondaatje, although overlapping chronologically, represent distinctive stages in Canada's evolving cultural traditions and publishing practices since the 1950s. Davies's novels signal the first stage in a transition from colonial to postcolonial identity in post-war Canada. Atwood in the 1970s provided the script for a Canadian cultural and literary identity separate from British and American in what Carol Shields called ‘a period of explosive patriotism’. Ondaatje's novels and family memoir epitomize the ‘refocusing and defocusing’ of Canadian literature since the 1980s, coinciding with the nation's shifts into multiculturalism and transnationalism. The chapter first provides a background on Davies, Atwood, and Ondaatje's careers before considering some of their works, including the Deptford trilogy (Davies), The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood), and The English Patient (Ondaatje).

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