• ANUPRIYA P B

This work aims to shed light on ‘othering’ faced by labour migrants who travel from India, especially Kerala to gulf countries in search of employment and monetary avenues. The most powerful oil kingdom has an attitude of belligerence towards diasporic workers. This paper tries to substantiate this fact through analysis of Benyamin’s novel Goat days and Kamal’s movie Gaddama. The indentured labour in which they engage is actually a replacement of slavery. Along with the exposure to a different language and culture, they also encounter brutal subjugation and savagery under Arab masters. By analysing these works, the paper delineate master- slave relationship, alienation, loss of identity, nostalgia, human right violation, longing for liberation etc. faced by migrant labourers in the sea of sand.

Diaspora, othering, expatriate, identity crisis

"BEING SIDELINED IN THE BILLOWING SAND: AN ANALYSIS OF BENYAMIN’S GOAT DAYS AND KAMAL’S GADDAMA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.134-137, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905R19.pdf

"BEING SIDELINED IN THE BILLOWING SAND: AN ANALYSIS OF BENYAMIN’S GOAT DAYS AND KAMAL’S GADDAMA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp134-137, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905R19.pdf