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- Title
REFLECTION OF DIASPORA IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE'S COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER.
- Authors
Gonde, Y. B.
- Abstract
Michael Ondaatje (1943) is a Sri Lankan born C anadian novelist and poet. He is one of the most well-known diasporic writers in the post-modern era. lie is lookeduponas one ofthe promising writers of Canada. Ondaatje has written six novels. All his novels are diasporic novels. In his novels Ondaatje depicts the people of different cultures living together and coming from different countries. As a writer of diaspora, in Ondaatje's novels we come aclass various aspects of diaspora. These include the theme of identity' crisis, migration, hybridity, multicultural ism, transnationalism, intertextuality, historiography metafiction, space, place, alienation and displacement. Ondaatje himself is an immigrant novelist who thinks that all people should live together. In all his novels he highlights his life and importance of immigration. The different characters in his novel ivpresent different cultural and racial backgmund. Through these characters Ondaatje portrays the condition of the contemporary society In fact he wants to alter the existingcondition of all immigrants. The aim and objective of the present article is tohighlight the attempt of Ondaatje in focusing the lives of'immigrants through different diasporic concerns and to enable them to join the mainstream of society by bringing equality among all peoples depicted in the novel 'Coming Through Slaughter'. Before we take a glance at the novel 'Coming Through Slaughter' as a diasporic nove Uitisnecessary to have abriefidea of the concept of diaspora and it svariousaspects.
- Subjects
COMING Through Slaughter (Book : Ondaatje); ONDAATJE, Michael, 1943-; LITERARY criticism; DIASPORA in literature; LITERATURE &; transnationalism; EMIGRATION &; immigration in literature
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 3, p462
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism