Tales of Migration: Biopolitics and Human Geography in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By The Sea
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https://doi.org/10.53032/tvcr/PP/2026.v8n1.17Keywords:
biopolitics, human geography, displacement, migration, power and control.Abstract
This paper analyzes the biopolitical and human geography through the immigrant novel. There are lot of various sufferings of the central character and confusions in the country, that he faced in their own country and in the new land he arrived. This paper also discusses the sufferings by migration and it also seeks to find the behavior, law, politics, government and culture of the country he migrated to. Thus, in short biopolitics and human geography, the postcolonial theories will be studied in the light of displacement/migration.
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