[Sfts-faculty] Fwd: [Englishfaculty] Publication news: special issue of SFS on Southeast Asian speculative fiction

[andré carrington]

Great news from Professor Weihsin Gui in English.
Dear ENGL faculty colleagues and graduate students,

I am very pleased to announce that my guest-edited special issue of *Science
Fiction Studies* on Southeast Asian speculative fiction has just been
published. It the first issue to be published with the University of
California Press. The special issue's website is
https://online.ucpress.edu/sfs/issue/52/1

Here is the list of 7 essays and my guest editor's introduction.

Introduction
Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream. Weihsin Gui

Articles
“We resolve not to smile”: Speculative Contact Reimagining Thainess in
Bangkok Wakes to Rain. Jasmine An

Aquatic Transformations, Flexible Subjects, and Environmental Change in
Contemporary Filipino Speculative Tales. Trisha Federis Remetir

Monstrous Woman and the Decolonial Gothic Female Gaze in Nuraliah Norasid’s
The Gatekeeper. Grace V. S. Chin

Beyond the East-West Dichotomy: Strategic Exoticism and the SF Literary
Marketplace in Aliette de Bodard’s Universe of Xuya Series. Zhui Ning Chang

Contested Homes in Speculative Futurities in Anglophone Bruneian Fiction.
Hannah Ming Yit Ho

Count on Me, Singapore: Quantality and the Meritocratic Society in
Twenty-first Century Singaporean Speculative Fiction. Cheryl Julia Lee

A Good Trooper: Reading Aesthetics in the Autonomous Shadows of
Singa-Pura-Pura. Joshua Tee

As I state at the end of my editorial introduction, this special issue has
limitations in scope and coverage, but I hope it is an important beginning
that starts conversations and lays the ground for future scholarship.

(If you do not have access to the journal but would like a copy of any (or
all) of these essays please send me a message or an email at
weihsing at ucr.edu.)
-- Sincerely,
Weihsin

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-- 
andré m. carrington

Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Director, Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science
<https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report>
--
Editor, The Black Fantastic
<https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/>,
Library
of America, 2025
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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