Acknowledgements Table of contents Introduction The multiple senses of the haptic A touch affectionate but troubling Michael Ondaatje: Writing politically with a difference Notes Chapter I: Haptic Writing as Affective Cinema Hapticizing the 'I' / 'eye' in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Coming through the haptic cut: History in the making and Coming through Slaughter Humble Affections of the Cinematic: Michael Ondaatje's Films of the 1970s Notes Chapter II: Micropolitical Hapticity and Witness Writing 'Touching into words' the intimacy of witness writing in Running in the Family Witnessing the body/The body witnessing in Anil's Ghost Notes Chapter III: Haptic Writing and Micropolitical Betrayals 'A falling together of accomplices' in In the Skin of a Lion: Writing, history, betrayal Between the grope of the hand and the sight of a rifle: The betrayal of propinquity in The English Patient Betrayals of the Cinematic: Anthony Minghella's The English Patient Notes Epilogue: The Haptic in Literature: Hiding, Playing, Educating Notes Bibliography Index.
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