Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter: Disrupting Boundaries of Self and Language Footnote*

*Part of this paper was presented at the HELAAS conference on Ex-centric Narratives, Greece, March 2007. I would like to thank Professor Hilde Staels for her unremitting support and helpful advice.

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