Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing

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 ...