Abstract
Sandeep Sanghera, in her paper Touching the Language of Citizenship in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost discusses questions which make Ondaatje's novel a text about postmodern identity: who is this woman Anil who lives mostly in the West, travels on a British passport, works for an international organization, and no longer has any real ties to her first home? In the paper, these questions are examined via the languages Anil adopts and abandons in the novel. Sanghera elaborates on the question of foreign-ness represented by the protagonist of the novel; however, this foreign-ness is examined in the particular context concerning the substance of family and kinship as well as language and nation. Sanghera's analysis represents the questions and thoughts of readers who are themselves migrants between languages and homes. Sandeep Sanghera, Touching the Language of Citizenship in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost page 2 of 7 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004):
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