Lava Asaad
Biographic Data
| ID | 253171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lava Asaad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lava |
| FAMILY NAME | Asaad |
| SIGNATURE | ASAAD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9150-9854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making it hot: Eco-militancy and survivance in Helon Habila's Oil on Water and Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were
The Other Diaspora: South Asian Migrants in The Gulf States
Temporary People (2017), a collection of stories by Deepak Unnikrishnan brings to light the forgotten and ignored experiences of South Asian work migrants in the Gulf States. Those immigrants are simultaneously excluded from their home country and from the Emirati society, deemed by both as redundant and disposable. The precarious situations of these immigrants are aggravated by a fraught socioeconomic and ecological structures at home (forever d…
We're all some sort of shaath: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad's Guapa
Saleem Haddad’s debut novel, Guapa, has been celebrated for its depiction of queerness in the Middle East. The novel goes beyond exploring alternative sexualities in a reaction to the overtly predominant heterosexuality of the region. This article traces how Haddad draws on the upheavals that erupted during the Arab Spring. Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s concept of transversality that is intended to offset the rise of tribalism and heightened nation…
Ethnographic Surrealism in Gun Island: Reorienting Climate Change Narrative
Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island brings to the forefront the inadequacy of realist fiction in presenting climate crisis. Assiduously, the novel teems with alternative modes of narration that dispenses with the authority of accurate representations of crisis. In this essay, I am applying James Clifford’s term “ethnographic Surrealism” in analyzing Ghosh’s representation of catastrophe in Gun Island. The inception of Surrealism in 1920s and 1930s in Europ…
Sea of bodies: A medical discourse of the refugee crisis in Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story
In the memoir Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story , Pietro Bartolo (2018) relates visceral descriptions of illness, injury and death endured by refugees on their journey of escape to the shores of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean. The medical gaze of the doctor/author further complicates the political and philosophical discourse of mass migration, foregrounding and calling into question the myriad ways in which the migrating human body is subjugated to…
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Sea of bodies: A medical discourse of the refugee crisis in Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story
In the memoir Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story , Pietro Bartolo (2018) relates visceral descriptions of illness, injury and death endured by refugees on their journey of escape to the shores of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean. The medical gaze of the doctor/author further complicates the political and philosophical discourse of mass migration, foregrounding and calling into question the myriad ways in which the migrating human body is subjugated to…
Ethnographic Surrealism in Gun Island: Reorienting Climate Change Narrative
Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island brings to the forefront the inadequacy of realist fiction in presenting climate crisis. Assiduously, the novel teems with alternative modes of narration that dispenses with the authority of accurate representations of crisis. In this essay, I am applying James Clifford’s term “ethnographic Surrealism” in analyzing Ghosh’s representation of catastrophe in Gun Island. The inception of Surrealism in 1920s and 1930s in Europ…
The Other Diaspora: South Asian Migrants in The Gulf States
Temporary People (2017), a collection of stories by Deepak Unnikrishnan brings to light the forgotten and ignored experiences of South Asian work migrants in the Gulf States. Those immigrants are simultaneously excluded from their home country and from the Emirati society, deemed by both as redundant and disposable. The precarious situations of these immigrants are aggravated by a fraught socioeconomic and ecological structures at home (forever d…
We're all some sort of shaath: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad's Guapa
Saleem Haddad’s debut novel, Guapa, has been celebrated for its depiction of queerness in the Middle East. The novel goes beyond exploring alternative sexualities in a reaction to the overtly predominant heterosexuality of the region. This article traces how Haddad draws on the upheavals that erupted during the Arab Spring. Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s concept of transversality that is intended to offset the rise of tribalism and heightened nation…
Making it hot: Eco-militancy and survivance in Helon Habila's Oil on Water and Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were
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