Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.4
Esther Daimari
This paper explores contemporary Sri Lankan fiction as expressions and experiments in postcolonial EcoGothic writing by highlighting an intense relationship between ecology and place. By examining the novels of three contemporary Sri Lankan writers – Roma Tearne’s Mosquito, Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, and Patricia Weerakoon’s Empire’s Children, the article examines how certain landscape tropes such as the sea, the forest, ruins, caves, and tea plantations are shaped by the writers as gothic spaces to share their ecological concerns. The eerie plantations in Empire’s Children and the fecund forest, groves and the sea in Mosquito, and the caves and mass graves in Anil’s Ghosts allude to traumas related to postcoloniality, war, and military territorialization. Building upon theories of landscape, ecocriticism, and more specifically, the EcoGothic, the article draws upon works by Sharae Deckard and others to suggest how in these novels, the landscape is not just a setting for the stories but palimpsests of multiple histories of violence on both the people and the environment. The article examines how the novel enacts violence and spatial disorientation, closely connected with the gothic genre, suggesting Anglophone contemporary Sri Lankan fiction writers’ recurrent exploration of gothic and ecology in their works.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.25
Goutam Karmakar
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.18
A. Ang
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.3
Jamie Uy
EcoGothic studies has, so far, primarily focused on uncanny environments imagined by Western writers. In response, this article compares polluted, haunting environments in two contemporary Anglophone novels from the Global South: Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors(2019) and HelonHabila’s Oil on Water(2011). Through vivid representations of the forbidding jungles of Malaysian palm oil plantations and the toxic waters of the oil-rich Niger Delta, both novels render extractive economies palpable and monstrous. This essay analyses how dystopian atmospheres, fragmented first-person narration, and circular crime fictions contribute to the EcoGothic aesthetic in both novels. Re-focusing scholarly attention from the dark woods of Europe and North America to the decaying mangroves across Asia and Africa foregrounds the ruinous aftermath of Western imperialism and neoliberal capitalism. By examining uncanny environments in Aw and Habila’s novels, this essay sheds new light on the neglected EcoGothic effects of Global South petrofiction.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.14
Regina Yoong
{"title":"Cold Showers","authors":"Regina Yoong","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42579141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.20
Shivani Sivagurunathan
{"title":"William Tham Wai Liang, The Last Days","authors":"Shivani Sivagurunathan","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46196701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.2
Li-hsin Hsu
{"title":"Introduction: Syaman Rapongan’s Littoral Gothic and EcoGothic Asia","authors":"Li-hsin Hsu","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48106646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.15
David C. L. Lim
{"title":"Speculative Fiction as a Return to Tradition: A Conversation with Joshua Kam","authors":"David C. L. Lim","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44688214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.11
Chiho Nakagawa
{"title":"“On Not Going Straight in One Direction”: In Conversation with Jonathan Brewer","authors":"Chiho Nakagawa","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46829016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol59no1.13
Christian Jil R. Benitez
A short lyric poem on love, dogs, and joy.
一首关于爱、狗和欢乐的抒情短诗。
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