Reframing History Through Myths
C, Lakshmimol
Michael Ondaatje's fictional worlds are predominantly concerned with ambivalence and dilemmas of displaced people. He has profound interest in myth and myth-making as storytelling. His novels echo the post modern and contemporary cultural, spiritual, emotional and shared life through the use of myths, folktales and historic legends. In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient and Anil's Ghost search and analyse the frontiers between history and...