{"title":"Haiku Seven Gastronomicity","authors":"Sanjay Kuttan","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.13","url":null,"abstract":"Haiku is an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively, a poem in this form usually having a seasonal reference. I have always been searching for new ways to express myself and my recent collection of Haiku in ‘In One Breath’ was published in 2022. I chose to do seven Haiku to capture the various foods I enjoy covering a myriad of cuisines that reflect a very multicultural Singapore with multinational presence. Not that I am numerologist, but the number seven was particularly interesting because it consisted of the union of the physical (number 4) with the spiritual (number 3), and in Pythagorean numerology the number 7 means spirituality. Furthermore, as an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has also greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition, philosophy and now in poetry as it reflects both the physical and spiritual nature of food. Food that unites and reunites relationships, always prepared with love and respect for the origins of the recipe and respect for the consumer as it becomes one with the body that enjoys its nourishment and teases the senses.","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41874653","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}
{"title":"Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Love and Loss","authors":"Shivani Sivagurunathan","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.16","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>None</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48954930","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}
{"title":"Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Happy Stories, Mostly. Trans. Tiffany Tsao.","authors":"F. Lee","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.17","url":null,"abstract":"A book review of the Indonesian short story collection by Norman Erikson Pasaribu titled, Happy Stories, Mostly (Tilted Axis Press, 2021). Translated into English by Tiffany Tsao, it was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48087167","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}
{"title":"Food: Culture, Consumption, and Representation","authors":"Anitha Devi Pillai","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.2","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>NA</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46810406","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}
{"title":"April is the Cruelest Month","authors":"Vivimarie VanderPoorten","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.23","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>Poem</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44761872","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}
{"title":"The Culinary Space: Food as a Narrative Tool in Agatha Christie’s Detective Novels","authors":"Prerana Chakravarty","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Kevin Burton Smith in his article ‘Murder on the Menu’ (2010), comments, “right from the start there’s been a curious link between food (and drink) and crime fiction.” Despite the fact that culinary mystery novels arose as a subgenre of crime fiction in the late twentieth century, food has always been a part of crime fiction, and has played an important role in the early stories of Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe. Food is frequently depicted as a source of stability and order in crime novels, establishing verisimilitude, creating a genuine world, a world as we know it. Agatha Christie, too, has included significant reference to food, eating habits and food rituals throughout her detective stories, using it as a tool to create a feminine and domestic space. This paper will analyse how Christie has used the depiction of food as a tool to further the narrative, portraying it in her novels as a calming ritual and a clue to the murder. However, food in Christie’s stories can also gain a more sinister undertone, and this paper will also analyse this, focusing on how Christie transforms food into a murder weapon itself, as a bad omen indicating events, thereby, blending reality with the storyline and lending vivacity to her characters and her plots.","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47921263","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}
{"title":"EDITORIAL: Food for the Body, Food for the Soul","authors":"S. Philip","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47056437","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}
{"title":"Masculinities and the Brunei Chinese “Problem”: The Ambivalence of Race, Gender, and Class in Norsiah Haji Abd Gapar’s Pengabdian","authors":"Grace V.S. Chin","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.22","url":null,"abstract":"The identity and position of the Chinese are problematic in Brunei Darussalam, where the primary identity of the Malays as “authentic” natives and citizens is upheld by the state ideology of Melayu Islam Beraja (Malay Islamic Monarchy; henceforth MIB). MIB moreover warns of the threat posed by the difference of non-Malays, in this case, the Chinese, while noting their potential contributions to social and economic development. Brunei’s ambivalent treatment of the Chinese Other is reflected in the Malay novel Pengabdian (“Submission,” 1987). Authored by Brunei’s most famous woman writer, Norsiah Abd Gapar, Pengabdian employs the strategies of stereotyping and idealising to produce an MIB-compliant narrative in which the dangers posed by difference, specifically represented by Chinese masculinity, are erased while Brunei Malay masculinity is defended as the hegemonic ideal through the trope of conversion. Using Connell’s theory of masculinities in relation to the strategies of stereotyping and idealising, this article examines how the representations of Brunei Chinese men engage the intersections of race, gender and class that undergird ethnic identities as well as citizenship in Brunei. In so doing, my analysis considers why the Chinese are still treated with such ambivalence and unease, and what this means for interethnic relations on the ground.","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47068584","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}
{"title":"The Malaysian Nasi Lemak Story as Reviewed Online: A Genre Perspective","authors":"Angelicia Anthony Thane","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.7","url":null,"abstract":"As a multiracial country, food is a significant component of the Malaysian culture. Local cuisines serve to portray the different ethnicities which make up its population. Reflecting the nation’s unique identity, Malaysian Heritage Food (MHF) has become internationally acclaimed due to the rise of the digital era. The Internet has enabled easy access to information on various local and international cuisines, ranging from personal food vlog channels to dedicated culinary expert websites. The quest and appreciation for famous cuisines and technological convenience give rise to a relatively prominent digital genre: online food reviews, a significant source of information for gastronomes worldwide. Thus, this paper explores online food reviews focusing on Nasi Lemak, a specific MHF Malay cuisine and Malaysia’s national dish. Employing a genre perspective, I investigate the roles of text and visuals in these reviews to make sense of the form, function and meaning of this digital genre. This paper establishes the interdependence and integration between the textual and visual modes to decipher the online representation of Nasi Lemak in a Malaysian context and the digital space. The online Nasi Lemak review as a genre illustrates the significance of its multimodal nature in describing the Nasi Lemak story, simultaneously offering potential early insights into the sociocultural nuances surrounding this MHF.","PeriodicalId":40194,"journal":{"name":"SARE-Southeast Asian Review of English","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42116377","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}