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ID171294
Title Properravasi really means absence
Other Title InformationGulf-Pravasis as spectral figures in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s temporary people
LanguageENG
AuthorMenon, Priya
Summary / Abstract (Note)Deepak Unnikrishnan’s debut text, Temporary People, attempts to explore certain vulnerabilities and anxieties of transience that accompany emigrants to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, where citizenship is not an option. By representing one of the largest Gulf diaspora in contemporary history—the Keralan emigrants or pravasis—as spectral figures and as absence-presences that signal a non-present presence in the Gulf, Unnikrishnan’s book attempts to retrieve and register their occulted histories on the Gulf landscape. In particular, this article explores how, by creating a Keralan Gulf-pravasi spectre, Unnikrishnan critically engages with a more varied version of Gulf diasporic experience and, therefore, a more complex definition of emigration itself.
`In' analytical NoteSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 43, No.2; Apr 2020: p.185-198
Journal SourceSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2020-04 43, 2
Key WordsKerala ;  Absence ;  Deepak Unnikrishnan ;  Emigrant Literature from Gulf Cooperation Council Countries ;  Gulf Diaspora ;  Pravasi ;  Temporary People