Wasafiri 116 Winter 2023 2024
Wasafiri 116: Shorelines: South East Asia and the Littoral, our winter special issue guest edited by Nazry Bahrawi, Joanne Leow, and Y-Dang Troeung, focuses on a range of creative, critical, and artistic work from Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Myanmar and their diasporas, providing “place-based testimonies and glimpses into the complex experiences of existing on the shoreline.”
In the marine sciences, the ‘littoral zone’ is the area of closest contact between the land and the water. With a special feature by Madeleine Thien on the late Y-Dang Troeung and her work, articles and essays on Asian New Wave cinema, migration, and labour flows in the region, interviews with Tiffany Tsao and Kirsten Han, and an assortment of poetry, fiction, reviews, and art, this issue imagines the region as an apt site for the study of the littoral zone as both 'metaphor' and 'spectacle'.
Editorial Litorally Speaking
Special Feature 'The Gravity of Her Existence': Madeleine Thien on Y-Dang Troeung
Articles Between Land Reclamation and Labour, Empathy and Asian New Wave Film: Fungibility in Yeo Siew Hua's A Land Imagined 幻土; Li Zishu's Hidden Transcripts of Post-1970s Malaysia: Literature and Religion in Land of Floating Customs; Passionate Engagements, Intimate Entrapments: Love, War, and Those Caught Between Empire and Nation
Interviews Tiffany Tsao; Kirsten Han
Art Transmedial Meditations on the Shores of Southeast Asia
Fiction Nuraliah Norasid; Hikayat Raja Bibi, excerpted and trans. by Nazry Bahrawi; William Jamieson
Poetry Shirley Camia; Jim Pascual Agustin; Lawrence Lacambra Ypil; Maung Htike Aung
Life Writing On the Edge: Fate and Flourishing in the Fringes; Collecting Through Absence: Fragmenting Vietnamese Refugee Archives; Eight Breaths
Review Essay People Everywhere: Three Books on Authoritarianism and Resistance
Reviews Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency; Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls; Kristian-Marc James Paul, Mysara Aljaru, and Myle Yan Tay, eds, Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore; Dieter Riemenschneider, Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori Culture; Li Zi Shu, trans. by YZ Chin, The Age of Goodbyes
...and more.
| Weight | 0.510000 |
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| Binding | Magazine |
| Pages | 90 |
| Report Date | 2023/12/16 |
| Date Published | 16th December 2023 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9770269005023 |
| Publisher | Wasafiri -Taylor and Francis Group |
Wasafiri 116: Shorelines: South East Asia and the Littoral, our winter special issue guest edited by Nazry Bahrawi, Joanne Leow, and Y-Dang Troeung, focuses on a range of creative, critical, and artistic work from Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Myanmar and their diasporas, providing “place-based testimonies and glimpses into the complex experiences of existing on the shoreline.”
In the marine sciences, the ‘littoral zone’ is the area of closest contact between the land and the water. With a special feature by Madeleine Thien on the late Y-Dang Troeung and her work, articles and essays on Asian New Wave cinema, migration, and labour flows in the region, interviews with Tiffany Tsao and Kirsten Han, and an assortment of poetry, fiction, reviews, and art, this issue imagines the region as an apt site for the study of the littoral zone as both 'metaphor' and 'spectacle'.
Editorial Litorally Speaking
Special Feature 'The Gravity of Her Existence': Madeleine Thien on Y-Dang Troeung
Articles Between Land Reclamation and Labour, Empathy and Asian New Wave Film: Fungibility in Yeo Siew Hua's A Land Imagined 幻土; Li Zishu's Hidden Transcripts of Post-1970s Malaysia: Literature and Religion in Land of Floating Customs; Passionate Engagements, Intimate Entrapments: Love, War, and Those Caught Between Empire and Nation
Interviews Tiffany Tsao; Kirsten Han
Art Transmedial Meditations on the Shores of Southeast Asia
Fiction Nuraliah Norasid; Hikayat Raja Bibi, excerpted and trans. by Nazry Bahrawi; William Jamieson
Poetry Shirley Camia; Jim Pascual Agustin; Lawrence Lacambra Ypil; Maung Htike Aung
Life Writing On the Edge: Fate and Flourishing in the Fringes; Collecting Through Absence: Fragmenting Vietnamese Refugee Archives; Eight Breaths
Review Essay People Everywhere: Three Books on Authoritarianism and Resistance
Reviews Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency; Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls; Kristian-Marc James Paul, Mysara Aljaru, and Myle Yan Tay, eds, Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore; Dieter Riemenschneider, Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori Culture; Li Zi Shu, trans. by YZ Chin, The Age of Goodbyes
...and more.