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• W2076663042 abstract "Anil’s Ghost tells the story of Anil Tissera who, having lived abroad for approximately fifteen years, returns to her home country, Sri Lanka. As a forensic anthropologist who works for the United Nations Human Rights Centre, she intends to investigate political murders. On the island, she is unexpectedly confronted with relatives of murder victims including the miner and artificer Ananda Udugama, whose wife was abducted and presumably killed, and the epigraphist Palipana, whose brother was murdered and whose niece Lakma witnessed the murder of her parents. Anil also becomes acquainted with the local archaeologist Sarath Diyasena and his brother Gamini, who are both haunted by the suicide of Sarath’s wife. As a novel that relates specifically to the civil war in Sri Lanka, Anil’s Ghost raises ethical issues. Yet critics of the novel have thus far treated Ondaatje’s ethical concerns somewhat cursorily or viewed them mainly in terms of globalized ethics. For instance, in an article that deals with Anil’s ‘diasporic identity,’ Heike Harting broaches the novel’s ‘ethical (although rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice’ (43). Likewise Katherine Stanton focuses on the novel’s ‘concern with justice in a globalized world’ (40) and Teresa Derrickson on ‘the need for human compassion and the need for global justice’ (149). Margaret Scanlan, who addresses the subject of terrorism, refers to Anil’s ‘ethical obligation to name’ the body of a Sri Lankan murder victim (3). Antoinette Burton discusses Ondaatje’s postcolonial interest in reclaiming untold, unofficial stories about the nation’s history, but wonders whether his narrative opens up ‘the kind of “ethical space for historiography” which contemporary politics demands’ (52). I would suggest that another important ethical dimension of Anil’s Ghost can be seen by reading Anil’s and the other characters’ personal and traumatic histories of loss and love in the light of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. In what follows, I offer a psychoanalytic consideration of the characters’ repression of traumatic experiences, as well as their expression of buried affects and bodily drives. As we will see, an analysis of the characters’ unconscious minds goes hand in hand with a more formal literary analysis because the novel’s poetic discourse contains traces of the characters’ moods, such as sadness or fear, and of their life and death drives. In keeping with Julia Kristeva’s psycholinguistic writings, in" @default.
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• W2076663042 title "A Poetic Encounter with Otherness: The Ethics of Affect in Michael Ondaatje's <i>Anil's Ghost</i>" @default.
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