Michael Ondaatje : haptic aesthetics and micropolitical writing / Milena Marinkova.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index.

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The Multiple Senses of the Haptic -- A Touch Affectionate but Troubling -- Michael Ondaatje: Writing Politically with a Difference -- 1. Haptic Writing as Affective Cinema -- Hapticizing the "I"/"Eye" in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid -- Coming through the Haptic Cut: History in the Making and Coming through Slaughter -- Humble Affections of the Cinematic: Michael Ondaatje's Films of the 1970s -- 2. Haptic Aesthetics and Witness Writing -- "Touching into Words": The Intimacy of Witness Writing in Running in the Family -- Witnessing the Body/The Body Witnessing in Anil's Ghost -- 3. Haptic Writing and Micropolitical Betrayals -- "A Falling Together of Accomplices" in In the Skin of a Lion: Writing, History, Betrayal -- Between the Grope of the Hand and the Sight of a Rifle: The Betrayal of Propinquity in The English Patient -- Betrayals of the Cinematic: Anthony Minghella's The English Patient.

This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian authors 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 Ondaatjes multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This is where Ondaatjes micropolitics, often misconstrued as ideologically suspect aestheticism, emerges: a praxis that intimates how one.

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