Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil

Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil is an associate professor at the Manipal Centre for Humanities. He is the author of 'The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging' (Oxford University Press, 2024).

How Benyamin’s fiction upended the illusions of Gulf migrant lives in Malayalam literature

Spanning Kerala, the Arabian Gulf and more, the celebrated Malayalam novelist’s works narrate the realities of globalisation from below, and the heavy burdens of displacement and migration

By Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil

/ 12 Apr 2024

How Benyamin’s fiction upended the illusions of Gulf migrant lives in Malayalam literature