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General Introduction: Ondaatje and the Postcolonial Diaspora

• Deepika Bahri, Postcolonial Studies—Introduction
• Paul Brians, Postcolonial Literature: Problems with the Term
• New York Times Featured Author: Michael Ondaatje
• CLC Web: Comparative Literature & Culture 6.3 (September 2004)
  Thematic Issue: Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing.
  Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (useful throughout; please see below)

Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table (2011)

• Robert McCrum, Michael Ondaatje, The Divided Man, Guardian, 27 Aug 11
• The Diane Rehm Show, Ondaatje in Conversation, The Cat’s Table, 8 Dec 2011
• The Cat’s Table ______________________________________
  • sign-up for student presentation/seminar facilitation, perhaps in teams of two

Putting the J into the Postcolonial—Jazz and the Improvisations of Style
Coming Through Slaughter (1976)

• Anatole Broyard, Review of Coming Through Slaughter, NYT, 24 April 1977
• Jon Saklofske, The Motif of the Collector and History in Ondaatje’s Work, CLC Web, Comparative Culture & Culture 6.3 (2004)
• Slaughter I ________________________________
• Slaughter II ________________________________

Mapping, Homelessness, and the Aftershocks of Empire
The English Patient (1992)

• Arists in Conversations: Michael Ondaatje by Willem Dafoe, The Bomb
• Beverly Curran, The English Patient and Altered States of Narrative
• Stephanie M. Hilder, Ondaatje's The English Patient and Rewriting History
• Hsuan Hsu, Post-Nationalism and the Cinematic Apparatus in Minghella's Adaptation of Ondaatje's The English Patient all in CLC Web, Comparative Culture & Culture 6.3 (2004)
• Patient I _______________________________
• Patient II _______________________________

Sri Lanka, the Body of History, and the Divided Self
Anil’s Ghost (2000)

• Amitava Kumar, Ondaatje’s Table, Guernica interview, 23 March 2012
• Richard Eder, A House Divided, NYT, 14 May 2000
• Marlene Goldman, Representations of Buddhism in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
• Victoria Cook, Exploring Transnational Identities in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, CLC Web, Comparative Culture & Culture 6.3 (2004)
• Jacques Audiard, Dheepan (2015) (added 6 May 2016)
• Ghost I ________________________________
• Ghost II ________________________________