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Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film

Sayı: 19 30 Haziran 2025
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Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film

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Aadujeevitham: The Goat Life stands as a striking cinematic portrayal that reconsiders contemporary migration narratives through the expressive capacities of visual storytelling. Adapted from the eponymous novel by Benyamin, the film recounts the harrowing experience of Najeeb, a Malayali migrant who, after arriving in Saudi Arabia with hopes of economic stability, finds himself enslaved as a goat herder under inhumane conditions. This study explores how the film constructs themes such as forced migration, spatial isolation, corporeal exploitation, and ontological erasure, while examining how the migrant subject’s disintegration is rendered through visual aesthetics. The vast emptiness of the desert operates as a metaphor for physical and existential exile, while silence, animalistic coexistence, and the erosion of speech render identity dissolution both visible and affectively tangible. Migration is represented not merely as a sociopolitical rupture but as a profound ontological severance. Within this cinematic space, the migrant body becomes an object of estrangement, and survival transforms into a metaphysical ordeal. The narrative reframes migration as a collapse of memory, a crisis of belonging, and a silencing of language. Transposed from literature to screen, this story questions how migrant experiences are shaped and mediated by visual culture. Through the lens’s unflinching gaze, The Goat Life renders the unspeakable dimensions of migration visible, crafting a poetics of silence that resonates beyond the screen. Ultimately, the film unveils not only the dissolution of an individual self but also the structural silencing embedded in transnational labor exploitation across the global visual imaginary.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Film Eleştirisi

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

7 Mayıs 2025

Kabul Tarihi

28 Haziran 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Sayı: 19

Kaynak Göster

APA
Sarıbaş, S. (2025). Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi, 19, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.38060/kare.1694465
AMA
1.Sarıbaş S. Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi. 2025;(19):55-66. doi:10.38060/kare.1694465
Chicago
Sarıbaş, Serap. 2025. “Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film”. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi, sy 19: 55-66. https://doi.org/10.38060/kare.1694465.
EndNote
Sarıbaş S (01 Haziran 2025) Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi 19 55–66.
IEEE
[1]S. Sarıbaş, “Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film”, KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi, sy 19, ss. 55–66, Haz. 2025, doi: 10.38060/kare.1694465.
ISNAD
Sarıbaş, Serap. “Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film”. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi. 19 (01 Haziran 2025): 55-66. https://doi.org/10.38060/kare.1694465.
JAMA
1.Sarıbaş S. Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi. 2025;:55–66.
MLA
Sarıbaş, Serap. “Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film”. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi, sy 19, Haziran 2025, ss. 55-66, doi:10.38060/kare.1694465.
Vancouver
1.Serap Sarıbaş. Forgotten Bodies, Lost Identities: The Visual Ontology of Migration in The Goat Life Film. KARE Uluslararası Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Dergisi. 01 Haziran 2025;(19):55-66. doi:10.38060/kare.1694465