Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" and Multiculturalism

In his novel "In the Skin of a Lion", Michael Ondaatje masterly goes back through time and brings back to life again the history of the vibrating and growing city of Toronto, Canada in the 1920s. He feelingy deals with the corners of history often forgotten, rewriting the story anew, giving a voice to the immigrants experience, where Toronto becomes alive again as a stage for continually growing and changing multicultural narratives. In "Michael Ondaatje's 'In the Skin of a Lion' and Multiculturalism", Ondaatjes's authorial tools bringing to life the immigrant narrative are being closely and expresively analysed. Making use of Ondaatje's personal immigrant experience, Imbric deals with the presentation of history also Canada's immigration history, the concept of language and narrative as such, post-colonialism and postmodernism as features used to present the notion of multiculturalism in the novel, offering to the reader new facets of a world believed to be already fully experienced.

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Dragana Imbric, MA studied English and Russian Literature and Laguage at the University of Salzburg. Spending an academic year at the University of Leeds, GB, she came back to Austria and made her MA degree in Canadian Literature. She is employed with the Chinese Studies Center at the University of Salzburg and Eurasia-Pacific Uninet.

Klappentext

In his novel "In the Skin of a Lion", Michael Ondaatje masterly goes back through time and brings back to life again the history of the vibrating and growing city of Toronto, Canada in the 1920s. He feelingy deals with the corners of history often forgotten, rewriting the story anew, giving a voice to the immigrants experience, where Toronto becomes alive again as a stage for continually growing and changing multicultural narratives. In "Michael Ondaatje's 'In the Skin of a Lion' and Multiculturalism", Ondaatjes's authorial tools bringing to life the immigrant narrative are being closely and expresively analysed. Making use of Ondaatje's personal immigrant experience, Imbric deals with the presentation of history also Canada's immigration history, the concept of language and narrative as such, post-colonialism and postmodernism as features used to present the notion of multiculturalism in the novel, offering to the reader new facets of a world believed to be already fully experienced.