The Economy As An Ideology In Framing Identity In Michael Ondaatje’s In The Skin Of A Lion “Theories Do Not Just Explain (Or Predict Or Describe) A Reality Out There, But Discursively Produce Mediated Accounts Of Reality.” (Kaul, 2002, 717)

Abstract

In my write-up, I have focused on the Economy as an ideology in framing the identity of the postcolonial diaspora. These include capitalism, Marxism, and the politics behind the expansion of imperialism and maintaining the prevailed partied. Since the late 1970s, the post-colonial theory has waved across various disciplines and also has germinated into an institutionalized force in academic life. although at the beginning perceived postcolonial studies were associated with literary and cultural studies, later its gravity swept through the arena of social science and humanities. Economics turned out to be the subject most resistant to change during this time of considerable intellectual shift. The discipline’s history, and its role in the development and spread of capitalism through colonialism and imperialism, without a doubt, need to be comprehended and theorized. I have selected Sri Lankan Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion to emphasize the argument.