![]() ![]() 6) before the war-the Second World War - had moved north, as Ondaatje points out from the beginning of the novel. But, before dealing with this elusive and allusive reference, it is worth stressing that The English Patient is a novel where Colonialism and Postcolonialism interweave 2, mimetically fused and confused in a fragmented, fragmentary and disrupted plot, which is based on four characters: a patient, a nurse, a sapper/doctor and a drug addict who are gathered in an Italian villa near Florence, a villa "that had been a war hospital" (p. Western medicine and its representatives - doctors, nurses and consequently patients. ![]() Ondaatje's The English Patient see: Caria Co (.)ġAs the title of my paper suggests - Why a patient and a nurse? and I could add, why a doctor? - I'd like to focus on the subtle reference to one of the themes linked to Colonialism which is pervasively used in The English Patient 1, that is. 2 On the topic of Colonialism and Postcolonialism in M.1 Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1992. ![]()
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