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A Flippant Gesture Towards Sri Lanka: A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost – Qadri Ismail

Novels like all other texts take sides. Literary orthodoxy may hold, still, that fiction must be read and evaluated on purely aesthetic grounds. But leftist literary criticism has always emphasised—and at its best demonstrated—the political consequences of fictions; it reinforces certain constructions of the social (what more colloquially would be called a worldview); such constructions …

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