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terdisciplinary Study of Literature, Vol. 29, No. 3, Septem-

ber 1996, pp. 97–116.

Further Reading

Jewinski, Ed, Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beauti-

fully, Canadian Biography Series, ECW Press, 1994.

In this illustrated biography of Ondaatje, Jewinski

discusses how Ondaatje’s writing is usually inspired

by a single intense image and relates this trend to the

author’s own intense life. The book explores On-

daatje’s relationships with his family and links these

relationships to his later works.

Le Guerer, Annick, Scent: The Mysterious and Essential

Powers of Smell, Kodansha International, 1994.

Le Guerer explores the historical and cultural rela-

tionship among the sense of smell and mythology,

religion, psychology, and other areas. This book also

includes some sections on the relationship of scent

to seduction and magic.

Rouby, Catherine, Benoist Schaal, Danièle Dubois, Rémi

Gervais, and A. Holley, eds., Olfaction, Taste, and Cogni-

tion, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

In this first multidisciplinary research anthology,

more than fifty specialists discuss smell, taste, and

cognition as it relates to neuroscience, psychology,

anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics.

Seneviratne, H. L., ed., Identity, Consciousness, and the

Past: Forging of Caste and Community in India and Sri

Lanka, Oxford University Press, 1997.

This collection of nine essays explores the historical

and anthropological issues associated with Sri Lanka,

Ondaatje’s birthplace and the setting of the poem.

The Cinnamon Peeler

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