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'.