The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
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
Bibliography
Index