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@article{173490,
        author = {Md Arif Uddin Mondal and Pallabi Gharami},
        title = {Collapse of the Human: Quantum Semiotics and Migrant Representation in South Asian Narratives},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {10},
        pages = {504-509},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=173490},
        abstract = {This study explores how quantum semiotics redefines migrant identities in South Asian narratives, drawing on quantum theory’s concepts—superposition, entanglement, and collapse—to analyse the fluidity of displacement. Using Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and Feroz Rather’s The Night of Broken Glass, the paper examines migration, memory, and survival through a semiotic lens. It identifies three key diagnostics: the collapse of identity under socio-political pressures, the entanglement of personal and collective memory, and the probabilistic agency of migrants navigating fragmented spaces. These insights challenge binaries of belonging and alienation, presenting migrants as trans-local and transhistorical subjects. Through narrative structures, including non-linear temporality and fragmented storytelling, the texts depict migrants as “superpositional” entities inhabiting contradictory states. The study critiques human rights frameworks that fail to accommodate this complexity, arguing for a more dynamic understanding of identity. By integrating quantum-semiotic frameworks, this paper offers a novel approach to migration studies and South Asian literature, demonstrating how displacement serves as both an existential crisis and an epistemological rupture, reimagining the human as dynamic and relational.},
        keywords = {Quantum Semiotics, Migrant Identity, South Asian Narratives, Superposition, Entanglement, Identity Collapse, Displacement, Trans-locality, Memory and Migration, Non-linear Temporality, Human Rights, Epistemological Rupture, Quantum Cognition, Narrative Structures, Transhistorical Subjects.},
        month = {March},
        }