Chapter Seven Multicultural Postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Globalization and Canadian Literature ix
5. Reconstructing the Politics of Canadian Nationalism
6. Introduction to Part One 3
7. Spectres of Derrida and Theory’s Legacy 9
8. Ambiguous Resistance in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing 27
9. Nationalism and the Void in Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies 41
10. Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and the Crisis of Canadian Modernity 55
11. Conclusion to Part One 67
12. Indigeneity and the Rise of Canadian Multiculturalism
13. Introduction to Part Two 71
14. Critique of Spivakian Reason and Canadian Postcolonialisms 79
15. Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan 91
16. Multicultural Postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion 105
17. Dismissing Canada in Jeannette Armstrong’s Slash 113
18. Conclusion to Part Two 135
19. Canada in the World
20. Introduction to Part Three 139
21. Transnational Multitudes 143
22. Mainstreaming Multiculturalism? The Giller Prize 157
23. Global Subjectivities in Roy Miki’s Surrender 169
24. Writing Past Belonging in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For 179
25. Conclusion to Part Three 201
26. Transnational Canadas 203
27. Bibliography 211
28. Index 225
29. Books in the TransCanada Series 238