Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion and Multiculturalism

In his novel In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje masterly goes back through time and brings back to life again the history of the vibrating and growing city of Toronto Canada in the 1920s. He feelingy deals with the corners of history often forgotten rewriting the story anew giving a voice to the immigrants experience where Toronto becomes alive again as a stage for continually growing and changing multicultural narratives. In Michael Ondaatje's 'In the Skin of a Lion' and Multiculturalism Ondaatjes's authorial tools bringing to life the immigrant narrative are being closely and expresively analysed. Making use of Ondaatje's personal immigrant experience Imbric deals with the presentation of history also Canada's immigration history the concept of language and narrative as such post-colonialism and postmodernism as features used to present the notion of multiculturalism in the novel offering to the reader new facets of a world believed to be already fully experienced.