Volume V Issue I January-March 2025

Name of Author : Abinaya K, K.Vimaladevi

Title of the paper : Exploring Power And Recoginition in In The Skin Of A Lion By Micheal Ondaatje

Abstract: In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje illuminates the lives of marginalized immigrant workers in Toronto in the early twentieth century while examining themes of power, identity, and acknowledgment. The novel explores how the powerful mold historical narratives, frequently omitting the contributions of working class people who were instrumental in the citys construction. Through figures like Alice Gull, Nicholas Temelcoff, and Patrick Lewis, Ondaatje aims to restore respect to people who have been forgotten by history and questions the prevailing paradigm. Through poetic prose and a fractured narrative framework, the novel highlights the human cost of development by reconstructing history from the viewpoints of the disenfranchised. The way that Ondaatje challenges authority, reinterprets historical memory, and provides voice to the voiceless is examined in this piece.

Keywords : Immigrant Labor, Historical Narrative, Identity, Authority, Marginalization, Power, Recognition, Disenfranchisement, Memory, and Storytelling.

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Page Number : 42-44