1st Edition
A Marxist Perspective on Select Fiction by Indian Writers from the Gulf Narratives of the ‘Permanently Temporary’ Migrants
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Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Acronyms and Book Editions Used
Chapter 1: Busting the Misconceptions of Migration: The Gulf Chapter
Chapter 2: Local Labour v/s Foreign Labour: Understanding the Gulf Social Order
Chapter 3: Decoding Class Politics of the Gulf
Chapter 4: ‘Permanently Temporary’: Exploring the Dynamics of Time
Chapter 5: Body as an Embodiment of Labour Intensification in the Gulf
Chapter 6: Beyond the Gulf Dream
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Tasnima Yasmin is an Assistant Professor of English at RCC Institute of Information Technology. With a passion for interactive and inter-disciplinary teaching methods, she engages students to hone their English language and technical communication skills. She endeavors to help her students to acquire English language learning techniques through English literature and AI tools, hoping to bridge the gap between language learning and literary exploration. Her expertise and enthusiasm inspire learners to develop critical thinking skills and analytical techniques while encouraging them to read between the lines of narratives from across the globe. Her areas of research interest include Indian Diaspora Literature, Contemporary Diaspora Fiction in Translation and Gulf Studies.
“The book diversely captures the temporariness of South Asian labor migration in select literary texts in the geopolitical context of the Gulf”
- Dr. Sayan Dey, Author of Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse
“The book offers fresh critical perspectives on labor migration from South Asia to the Gulf in exploring both global cultural and economic connections to two critically important world regions”
- Dr. Kristin Plys, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada
