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"Living and writing in an international space": An Interview with Muhammad Haji Salleh Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Sharifah Aishah Osman
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K.S. Maniam’s Bestiary: Reading Animality and Identity in Selected Stories Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Agnes S. K. Yeow
This essay scrutinises K.S.Maniam’s fictional animals by going beyond the confines of metaphor to interrogate the concept of animality and how animality impinges on diasporic identity. I examine the writer’s impulse to animalise the notion of national belonging especially though thestrategic deployment of the animal mask which reveals the shared domination of migrant and animal. I argue that Maniam’s
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When Asian Americans Return to Asia: Return Narratives, Transpacific Imagination, and the Post/Cold War Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Chih-ming Wang
By focusing on Asian American return narratives as a symbolic indicator of a shift in transpacific relations, this article attempts to address two questions: first, how will a focus on return experiences engage and reframe transpacific imperial geopolitics thatcreated and sustainedAsian American literature, and second, how will a focus on the “post/Cold War”rather than on globalization as a temporal
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Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and Coetzee’s Early Fiction: Representation, Grievability, Framing Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Mahdi Teimouri
Viet ThanhNguyen’s The Sympathizer(2015) is an intriguing novel for anyone familiar with the early fiction of J.M. Coetzee. Nguyen’s debut novel has as its theme the war in Vietnam, which is not surprising given his background and his scholarly work preceding its publication. Interestingly, Coetzee’s first novel, Dusklands(1974) comprised two novellas, the first of which,called “The Vietnam Project”
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Reading Transpacific American Literature: Empire, Space, and Representation Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Yuan Shu,Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
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Anitha Pillai, A Tapestry of Colours: Stories from Asia (Vols. 1&2) Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Keith Jardim
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Feminist Collaborations: In Conversation with Lan Duong Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Fiona Lee,Amy Thanh Ai Tong
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Rereading Empire, Rethinking History: Rehabilitation of the Vietcong in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Yuan Shu
Throughits reading of Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge, credited as the first Vietnamese American novel, this article seeksto investigate the discourse of reconciliation or refugee settlement in the context of the changing US master narratives from Empire to Cold War 2.0. Itarguesthat Cao’s novel in its effort to register a South Vietnamese perspective reorients modern Vietnamese experiences in relation to
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Transpacific American Literature: Curriculum, Cartography, Crossover Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Paul Giles
This essay considers the complications involved in constructing and delivering a university course on Transpacific American Literature. It analyses these complexities in terms of the intertextual relationship between transpacific and transatlantic literature. It also examines ways in which various forms of cartography have shaped ways in which the subject has been formulated. By focusing on the specific
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Suon Sorin, A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Looi Siew Teip
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Lilian Tong (Ed), Once Upon a Kamcheng Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 David H.J. Neo
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Of Concepts, Coconuts, and the Blood of Christ Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Ciara Mandulee Mendis
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Silent Conversations in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Ruskin Bond’s Rusty novels Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Debasree Ghosh
The essay undertakes an analysis of the connections and conversations between Rudyard Kipling’s Kim(1901) and Ruskin Bond’s largely autobiographical Rusty(1955-) novels. Kipling’s Kimhas evoked many literary responses and reactions across India. While writers such as Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Rabindranath Tagore, T.N. Murari,and even Sashi Tharoor have boldly written back to Kim, Ruskin Bond silently acknowledgesit
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Thinking, Feeling, Reading: On Methodologies in Scholarship on Malaysian Literature in English Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 David C.L. Lim
This essay is aboutthe production of scholarship on Malaysian literature in English. On the premise that existing readings of Malaysian texts arelargely based on the methodology of critique, it proposes that the emerging model of reading known as postcritique has the potential to contribute to the further diversification of scholarship on said literature. To illustrateits potential,postcritiqueis put
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"Hiroshima Sublime": Trauma, Japan, and the US Asia/Pacific Imaginary Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Rob Wilson
As an ethical and aesthetic mandate for the new millenium, the Cold War repression of Hiroshima within the American political imaginaryneeds to be symbolically confronted and undoneat national as well as global levels.As Americans and as Japanese citizens of the liberal global order, we must mutually move beyond the Cold War situation of historical repression that had obtained in 1965, when novelist
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Where History Meets Imagination: An Interview with Chris Mooney-Singh Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Adele Ward
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A Convergence of Filipino Worlds: An Onomastic Reading of Edgar Calabia Samar’s Janus Silang Novels Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Maria Rhodora G. Ancheta
Edgar Calabia Samar’s Janus Silang book series is a significant body of contemporary young adult fantasy novels in the Philippines. Samar’s ambitious series that successfully melds alternate online tech-worlds, everyday Filipino life, and ancient supernatural, god-inhabited worlds, is worthy of study. In creating this fantasy world, the Janus Silang series underscores the richness of Filipino mythology
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Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Ed.), Making Heritage in Malaysia: Sites, Histories, Identities Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Loo Hong Chuang
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Michael Lawrence (Ed.), Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Sonia Ghalian
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Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Worldbuilding in Murasaki’s The Tale of Genji and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Farid Mohammadi
In this paper, I examine the theoretical aspects of worldbuilding in Murasaki’s and Tolkien’s imagined worlds and accentuate the role of aesthetic landscape creation through which spatio-temporal layers are negotiated. As a starting point, I refer to Thomas Ryba’s Husserl, Fantasy and Possible Worlds (1990), where he evaluates the believability of secondary worlds via Husserlian phenomenology. To shed
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Malachi Edwin Vethamani (Ed.), Malaysian Millennial Voices Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Ann Ang
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Kamaladevi Aravindan, Sembawang: A Novel Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Angus Whitehead
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P. Lim Pui Huen, One-Legged Football and Other Stories Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Carol Leon
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“Don’t be a foreigner in your own country”: An Interview with Jo Kukathas Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Susan Philip
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Genetic Templates and Coded Worlds: David Hontiveros’ Seroks Iteration 1: Mirror Man as World-Driven Dystopia Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Sydney Paige Guerrero
In 2012, David Hontiveros revisited and expanded the world of his Carlos Palanca Memorial Award-winning short story, “Kaming Mga Seroks”, in Seroks Iteration 1: Mirror Man, which is set in a dystopic future where cloning is a booming industry, and genetic templates are pirated to create seroks or clones of clones. Mirror Man employs a fragmented style of storytelling that crafts a long-form narrative
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Between the Peechil-kamra and the Dabusa: Mapping Worldbuilding and Heterotopic Space on Board the Ibis in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Damini Kashyap,Hemjyoti Medhi
With the steady rise in the exploration of the idea of worldbuilding, studies have extensively researched the production and consumption of fantasy worlds created by animation studios like Disney and Studio Ghibli. However, the idea of worldbuilding remains inadequately studied in the context of South Asian fiction. This paper aims to engage with the thematic ramifications of ideas such as subcreation
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Making Space for Myth: Worldbuilding and Interconnected Narratives in Mythspace Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Francis Paolo Quina
The comics medium has long proven to be fertile ground for worldbuilding, spawning not only imaginary worlds but multiverses that have become international transmedial franchises. In the Philippines, komiks (as it is called locally) has provided the Filipino popular imagination with worlds populated by superheroes, super spies, supernatural detectives, and creatures from different Philippine mythologies
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Introduction: Another Word for World is Story Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Gabriela Lee
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Ho Sok Fong, Lake Like a Mirror: Stories Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Keith Jardim
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Colonial Medicine and Cholera: Historicizing Victorian Medical Debates in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Prashant Maurya,Nagendra Kumar
The present paper examines the use and description of colonial medicine for cholera and its practices in J.G. Farrell’s historical novel, The Siege of Krishnapur (1973). The paper shows that by engaging the two doctors stationed at the British residency in Krishnapur in a debate, Farrell contextualises an episode in British medical history to foreground popular medical beliefs on the aetiology of cholera
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Obituary: Salleh Ben Joned (1941-2020) Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Malachi Edwin Vethamani
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Gina Apostol, Insurrecto: A Novel and Dominic Sy, A Natural History of Empire: Stories Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Christian Benitez
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Anitha Devi Pillai and Puva Arumugam, From Kerala to Singapore: Voices from the Singapore Malayalee Community Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Shaila Koshy
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Kenneth Y.K. Chan, Chrita-Chrita Baba: A Collection of Short Stories in Baba Malay Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 David H.J. Neo
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Evolution of a Borrowed Genre in Malay Literature (1922-1941): The Case of Crime Fiction in Malaysia Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Evgeniya S. Kukushkina
Malaysian crime fiction in Malay is still under researched, with the main stages of its development yet to be identified. This article aims to partially close this gap by addressing the period before World War II. The study uses the comparative method, applied synchronically to determine the extent of Western influence on Malay crime fiction at a particular time; and diachronically, to outline the
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Interview: Ten Questions for Bernice Chauly Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Carol Leon
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"Only Strange Flowers Have Come to Bloom": Identity Crisis in Northeast India through the Poetry of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Neeraj Sankhyan,Suman Sigroha
Socio-economic and political changes effected by modernization result in overlapping and muddling of various borders and boundaries, jeopardizing the very concept of a stable identity. Although traditional or essentialist identities have an innate momentum that has made them stand the test of time, conflicts between national and ethnic identities have often led to turmoil and violence, with the former
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“Unspoken Affection”: Articulating Friendship in Gladys Ng’s The Pursuit of a Happy Human Life Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Carissa Foo
Gladys Ng’s The Pursuit of a Happy Human Life (2016) has been described as a short film about the “unspoken affection and awkward conversations [that] fill the last day two best friends [Yokes and Steph] spend together.” Inasmuch as it is about goodbyes, it is also about the many ways to not say goodbye. Yokes pauses, digresses, and acts out, refusing to bid farewell to Steph who is leaving Singapore
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Review: K.S. Maniam, Two Heartbeats Away Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Carol Leon
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The Unsullied Tongue of Saint Anthony Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Arin Alycia Fong
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Review: Sze-Wei Ang, The State of Race: Asian/American Fiction after World War II Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Nicholas O. Pagan
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Obituary: K.S. Maniam (1942-2020) Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Bernard Wilson
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Review: Beth Yahp, The Red Pearl and Other Stories and Eat First, Talk Later: A Memoir of Food, Family and Home Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Looi Siew Teip
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Introduction: “Re-Visions and Re-Imaginations in Asian Speculative Fiction” Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Susan Philip,Surinderpal Kaur
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An Interview with Heidi Shamsuddin Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Sharifah Aishah Osman
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“I’m a hyphenated writer”: An Interview with Beth Yahp Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Show Ying Xin
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Breaking his Spell: Rewriting the Mythic Female Body in Intan Paramaditha’s Apple and Knife Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Gema Charmaine Gonzales
Numerous are the patrilineal mythic narratives that institutionalize unidimensional representations of women, portraying female bodies either as repositories of submission and passivity or as cesspools of chaos and corruption. Through insidious reproduction, such myths cast a discursive spell that dispossesses women of their subjectivity and agency. To break this curse and regain their voice, feminist
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The Violence of Othering and (non-)Indigenous Revival: Aammton Alias’ The Last Bastion of Ingei: Imminent as Postcolonial Speculative Fiction of Brunei Darussalam Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Hannah Ming Yit Ho
This paper examines an Anglophone Bruneian novel, The Last Bastion of Ingei (2016), by Aammton Alias, as postcolonial speculative fiction. Employing the double lines of enquiry provided by the Orientalist colonial gaze and ideology of progress, I discuss symbolic and materialist aspects of the violent processes of othering experienced within the Bruneian nation. The novel delineates the way that a
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Deconstructing Western Hegemony and Voicing Silenced Histories in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Md Abu Shahid Abdullah
Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, a speculative novel which blends Western medical science with Eastern stories of ghosts, magic and immortality, criticizes the Eurocentric discourse of science and offers the possibilities of an alternative history from a subaltern perspective. By providing a logical and yet mystical order that privileges the marginalized, the novel casts doubt on the nature
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“Lost Inside Empire”: Self-Orientalization in the Animation and Sounds of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Travis Merchant-Knudsen
Japan as a colonial power at the beginning of the twentieth century fell outside of the Eurocentric empires of the West. However, the country found itself preoccupied with ways of elevating its status in the hope of being equal to and, eventually, surpassing the West. The Wind Rises (2013), an anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, an aeronautical engineer
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Burmese Governance and the Buddhist Ironies of U Win Pe’s “Clean, Clear Water” Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Jamie S. Scott
The Theravadan Buddhist dharma [teachings of the Buddha] and Burmese cultural identity are inseparable. Likewise, Burmese monarchs from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries revered India’s Mauryan ruler Ashoka (c. 280-200 BCE) as the epitome of noble Buddhist kingship. In recent decades, military regimes have drawn upon inherited Theravadan tropes and topoi, while dissident pro-democracy voices
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(Re)Imagining “Dystopian Space”: Memory and Trauma in Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Foong Soon Seng, Gheeta Chandran
Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police (1994) is set in an unknown island where objects and their meanings gradually disappear from society’s collective memory. Spencer argues that “power imposes itself on society through spatial initiatives that reconfigure the entirety of social space.” As memory is suppressed in this authoritarian society, the act of retaining memories of “disappeared” objects is a form
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Koh Tai Ann, Tan Chee Lay, Hadijah Rahmat, and Arun Mahizhnan, Singapore Chronicles: Literature Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2019-12-16 Geraldine Tan Le Ting
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Rajat Chaudhuri and Zafar Anjum (eds), The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018 Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2019-12-16 Agnes S.K. Yeow