The gulf migrant archives in Kerala: Reading borders and belonging

By:

Karinkurayil, Mohamed Shafeeq

Publication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.Description: xii, 191p., bib., ind., 22 cm X 14 cmISBN:

9780198908258

Subject(s):

-- Immigrants Persian Gulf States social conditions -- Malayalis -- migrant labor in literature -- migrant labor in motion pictures -- society -- sociology & anthropology -- travailleurs migrants

DDC classification:

331.5

List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals 16 Sep 2024

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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

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