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Jazzing the Novel: The Derridean Ethics of Michael Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter

2016; University of Manitoba Press; Volume: 49; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/mos.2016.0002

1925-5683

Natalie Diebschlag,

Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

This essay focuses on the depiction of jazz in Michael Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter. I argue that the elusiveness of Buddy Bolden’s music and Ondaatje’s own experimentalism enact the ethics that is central to the work of Jacques Derrida. By extension, they articulate a diasporic condition that is both universal as well as culturally specific.