{"title":"Editorial: “In Every Ending is a Beginning”","authors":"S. Gabriel","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.1","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":"42003506","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":"Okamoto Kidō’s “Sea Turtles”: An Example of the Japanese Littoral Weird Tale and the EcoGothic","authors":"Samantha Landau","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.12","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":"45720337","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":"Into the Haunted Forest: Reading Anti-Extractivism in Aammton Alias’s The Last Bastion of Ingei","authors":"R. Amran","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.6","url":null,"abstract":"This article posits gothic depictions of the haunted forest as important counter-narratives to extractivist representations of nature in public narratives in Brunei, including government policy and advertising for environmental tourism.The critical discussion will focus on a contemporary Bruneian text, Aammton Alias’sThe Last Bastion of Ingei(2016). Using a localized EcoGothiccritical framework, I argue that the novelreflectsIndigenous ecological beliefs and practices, wherein nature and the supernatural destabilize and undermine anthropocentric ways of knowing and relating to the nonhuman. EcoGothicnarratives can thus be seen as crucial representational models of anti-extractivism that reimagine human-nonhuman relations beyond anthropocentric epistemologies. To this end, I examine the ways in which nature and the supernatural are portrayed and how nonhuman agencies disrupt anthropocentric narration and reading. This article also makes a case for the diversification of local literary and cultural production to effectively reorient public narratives of the environment.","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":"47331249","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":"Vilashini Somiah, Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance","authors":"William Tham Wai Liang","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.19","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":"45397827","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":"Vandana Saxena, Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature","authors":"Andrew Ng","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.21","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":"42638058","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":"Shivani Sivagurunathan, Yalpanam","authors":"S. Kok","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.24","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":"44026066","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":"Grace V. S. Chin (Ed.), Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality","authors":"Maya Silvia","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.16","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":"42989426","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":"“A Perfect Place to Die”: Thinking the EcoGothic, Darkness, and the Dark Sweet in Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees","authors":"Kathryn Yalan Chang","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Located at the foot of Mountain Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan’s gothic forest Aokigahara Jukai, is an (in)famous “suicide forest.” Drawing on Timothy Morton’s three threads pertaining to dark ecology and Elizabeth Parker’s notion of “ecoGothic,” both of which open up a more comprehensive perspective of the dark forest, this article argues that the analysis of Van Sant’s film The Sea of Trees (2015) on Aokigahara brings into question the stereotype of the horrible suicide forest for it not only invokes Morton’s sense of (dark-sweet) meditative space for people to ponder the meaning of life but also brings us to recognize the re-enchantment of the Gothic forest where the strangers have been encountered. This article is divided into four parts: (1) Thinking the EcoGothic; (2) Thinking Darkness; (3) Thinking Dark Sweet; and (4) Conclusion. In my reading, Van Sant’s film cautions us against the stigmatization of the Sea of Trees, exclusively challenging anthropocentrism, calls for a more nuanced aesthetic and spiritual perspective about Aokigahara.","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":"47601638","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":"Mohammad A. Quayum (Ed), Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism","authors":"Elisabeth Arti Wulandari","doi":"10.22452/sare.vol59no1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.22","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":"43022181","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}