The gulf migrant archives in Kerala: Reading borders and belonging
Karinkurayil, Mohamed Shafeeq
The gulf migrant archives in Kerala: Reading borders and belonging - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. - xii, 191p., bib., ind., 22 cm X 14 cm
Recommended by: Pooja Thomas
Content:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Rumour at the Borders
The Lie of the Land
The Promise of Migration
The Temporariness of the Gulf Migration
Kerala as a Borderland
Translating the Borders
Chapterization
1 The Thrills of Migrant Photography
The Cassetted Migrant
The Photographic Truth
The Order of the Eye
A New Way of Looking
The Leisurely Migrant
A Private Modernity
2 The Gulf in Malayalam Cinema
The Prodigal Migrant
The Migrant Look
Coming Out A Revaluation of Laughter Films in View of the Gulf
3 Translating the Gulf: Writing the Borderland I
The Perils of Homophony: Sageer's Gulfumpadi PO
Race as Malleable: Reading Barsa
The Oceanic Permanence in Krishnadas's Prose
Creatures of a Different World
4 The Dead Ends and Alleyways: Writing the Borderland II
The Secret Pleasures of Transliteration: Goat Days
An Outlaw at the Border: Temporary People
Conclusion
Remittance and Ignorance
Postscript: Rearticulating the Migrant
Filmography
9780198908258
--Immigrants Persian Gulf States social conditions--Malayalis--migrant labor in literature--migrant labor in motion pictures--society--sociology & anthropology--travailleurs migrants
331.5
The gulf migrant archives in Kerala: Reading borders and belonging - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. - xii, 191p., bib., ind., 22 cm X 14 cm
Recommended by: Pooja Thomas
Content:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Rumour at the Borders
The Lie of the Land
The Promise of Migration
The Temporariness of the Gulf Migration
Kerala as a Borderland
Translating the Borders
Chapterization
1 The Thrills of Migrant Photography
The Cassetted Migrant
The Photographic Truth
The Order of the Eye
A New Way of Looking
The Leisurely Migrant
A Private Modernity
2 The Gulf in Malayalam Cinema
The Prodigal Migrant
The Migrant Look
Coming Out A Revaluation of Laughter Films in View of the Gulf
3 Translating the Gulf: Writing the Borderland I
The Perils of Homophony: Sageer's Gulfumpadi PO
Race as Malleable: Reading Barsa
The Oceanic Permanence in Krishnadas's Prose
Creatures of a Different World
4 The Dead Ends and Alleyways: Writing the Borderland II
The Secret Pleasures of Transliteration: Goat Days
An Outlaw at the Border: Temporary People
Conclusion
Remittance and Ignorance
Postscript: Rearticulating the Migrant
Filmography
9780198908258
--Immigrants Persian Gulf States social conditions--Malayalis--migrant labor in literature--migrant labor in motion pictures--society--sociology & anthropology--travailleurs migrants
331.5