A human pyramid: An (un)balancing act of ancestry and history in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Michael Ondaatje's running in the family

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-33

  Snelling, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950609642     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002198949703200103     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Robert Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West, London, New York: Routledge, 1990
2. Joy Kogawa, Obasan, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983 (1981). All references are taken from this edition
3. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, London: Picador Pan Books, 1984 (1982), p. 206. All references are taken from this edition
4. Hayden White, "Introduction to Metahistory"
5. Deborah Bowen, "The Well Lit Road and the Darkened Theatre: Photography in Biographies by Michael Ignatieff and Michael Ondaatje", World Literature Written in English, 31, 1 (1991), 47
6. Linda Hutcheon, The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction, Toronto: OUP, 1988, pp. 91-2
7. Hutcheon writes more extensively about this relationship between language and experience, see The Canadian Postmodern, pp. 82-93
8. Arun Mukherjee, "The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje and Cyril Dabydeen: Two Responses to Otherness", Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 20, 1 (1985), 56
9. Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism, London, New York: Routledge, 1989, p. 80