Wasafiri, Volume 38, Issue 4 (2023)

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Shorelines: Southeast Asia and the Littoral

Editorial

Editorial
Litorally Speaking
Nazry Bahrawi, Joanne Leow & Y-Dang Troeung
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Article
‘The Gravity of Her Existence’: Madeleine Thien on Y-Dang Troeung
Madeleine Thien
Pages: 4-5
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Article

Article
Between Land Reclamation and Labour, Empathy and Asian New Wave Film: Fungibility in Yeo Siew Hua’s A Land Imagined 幻土
Jerrine Tan
Pages: 6-16
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Life writing

Article
On the Edge: Fate and Flourishing in the Fringes
Theophilus Kwek
Pages: 17-21
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Collecting Through Absence: Fragmenting Vietnamese Refugee Archives
Cindy Anh Nguyen
Pages: 22-30
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
Islands; Lolo; The great pretenders
Shirley Camia
Pages: 31-32
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Fiction

Fictional Work
From Our Waters
Nuraliah Norasid
Pages: 33-36
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Interview

Accountability, Liminality, and (Mis)Representations in Translation: Khairani Barokka and Tiffany Tsao in conversation
Khairani Barokka
Pages: 37-42
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Fiction

Fictional Work
Hikayat Raja Babi
Nazry Bahrawi
Pages: 43-46
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Article
Transmedial Meditations on the Shores of Southeast Asia
Jasmine Gui
Pages: 47-58
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
Landscape with Rusted Nail; Water Before, AFTER; The First Boat
Jim Pascual Agustin
Pages: 59-60
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Interview

A Space for Freedom of Thought and Expression: An Interview with The Mekong Review’s Kirsten Han
Sudhir Vadaketh
Pages: 61-66
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Article

Article
Li Zishu’s Hidden Transcripts of Post-1970s Malaysia: Literature and Religion in Land of Floating Customs
Nicholas Y H Wong
Pages: 67-76
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Life writing

Article
eight breaths
jee chan
Pages: 78-81
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
As a Kind of Contact
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
Pages: 82-83
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Article
Passionate Engagements, Intimate Entrapments: Love, War, and Those Caught Between EMPIRE and Nation
Adrian Alarilla
Pages: 84-93
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
People of Nowhere; Burma, 2021; The Fall of Revolution
Maung Htike Aung
Pages: 94-95
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Fiction

Fictional Work
The Sand Man
William Jamieson
Pages: 96-101
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Review essay

Book Review
People Everywhere: Three Books on Authoritarianism and Resistance
The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte Vicente L Rafael Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina 2022, pb, 192pp, $24.95 ISBN 9781478017790 | www.dukeupress.eduIndonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship Max Lane Penguin Random House SEA, Singapore 2022, pb, 240pp, $23.99 ISBN 9789814914178 | www.penguin.sgPeople from Bloomington Budi Darma. Translated by Tiffany Tsao Penguin Random House, New York City, New York 2022, pb, 208pp, $14.00 ISBN 9780143136606 | www.penguinrandomhouse.com
Reuven Pinnata
Pages: 102-105
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Reviews

Book Review
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency; Imperium
Chen Chen Bloodaxe Books, Hexham 2022, pb, 152pp, £12.99 ISBN 9781780376233 | www.bloodaxebooks.comJay Gao Carcanet, Manchester 2022, pb, 92pp, £11.99 ISBN 9781800172470 | www.carcanet.co.uk
Jennifer Wong
Pages: 105-107
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore
Kristian-Marc James Paul, Mysara Aljaru, and Myle Yan Tay, eds Ethos Books, Singapore 2022, pb, 220pp, S$25.00 ISBN 9789811852725 | www.ethosbooks.com
Joshua Babcock
Pages: 107-108
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Tale of the Dreamer’s Son
Preeta Samarasan World Editions, New York 2022, pb, 360pp, $19.99 ISBN 9781642861204 | www.worldeditions.org/
Dina Zaman
Pages: 109-110
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Chinatown; Wandering Souls
Thuận. Translated by Nguyễn An Lý Tilted Axis Press, London 2022, pb, 183pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781911284673 | www.tiltedaxispress.comCecile Pin HarperCollins, London 2023, hb, 175pp, £14.99 ISBN 9780008528775 | https://harpercollins.co.uk
Pengfei Zhang
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature
Cheow Thia Chan Columbia University Press, New York 2022, pb, 320pp, $30.00/£25.00 ISBN 9780231203395 | http://cup.columbia.edu
Fiona Lee
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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The Great Reclamation; The Age of Goodbyes
Rachel Heng Hachette, London 2023, hb, 464pp, £20 ISBN 9781035406326 | www.hachette.co.ukLi Zi Shu. Translated by YZ Chin The Feminist Press at CUNY, New York 2022, pb, 360pp, £12.99 ISBN 9781952177699 | www.feministpress.org
Kwan Ann Tan
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Of the Florids
Shawn Hoo Diode Editions, Doha, Qatar and Richmond, Virginia 2022, pb, 48pp, US$12.00 ISBN 97819339728548 | www.diodeeditions.com
Gopika Jadeja
Pages: 115-117
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori Culture; Wow
Dieter Riemenschneider Tranzlit, Kronberg im Taunus 2021, pb, 162pp, €8.00 ISBN 9783981511697 | www.tranzlit.deBill Manhire Carcanet Press, Manchester 2020, pb, 88pp, £10.99 ISBN 9781800170049 | www.carcanet.co.uk
Yingjie M Cheng
Pages: 117-119
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Among the contributors

Among the contributors
Pages: 120-122
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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