Abstract
This chapter surveys Indian Gulf writing, focusing on novels and memoirs in Malayalam and English. The themes discussed are precarity, privation, and humiliation; gender and sexuality; political criticism; and racism. With reference to the Malayalam literary sphere in particular, the chapter demonstrates that migrant literature needs to be studied by taking into account its positionality within the regional field of literary production. Indian Gulf Writing is an area of study with far-reaching implications in fields such as migration literature, petrofiction, and diaspora literature, even as it also offers anthropological insight into the conditions of migrants living in the Persian Gulf.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 337-350 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780197647943 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780197647912 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 23-02-2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences