The Wails of Heaven: The Representation of Water in Contemporary Southeast Asian Poetry
This essay examines how water is represented and portrayed in three contemporary Southeast Asian poems. The analysis of Sarah Gambito’s « Yolanda: A Typhoon », Khairani Barokka’s « Flood Season, Jakarta », and Cindy Childress’ « Easter Sunday in Phuket, Thailand » combines two approaches: the Blue H...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/trans, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | This essay examines how water is represented and portrayed in three contemporary Southeast Asian poems. The analysis of Sarah Gambito’s « Yolanda: A Typhoon », Khairani Barokka’s « Flood Season, Jakarta », and Cindy Childress’ « Easter Sunday in Phuket, Thailand » combines two approaches: the Blue Humanities and Trauma Studies. Through this, the essay seeks to understand the ability of poetry to demonstrate how communities derive meaning from water-centric natural disasters like typhoons, floods, and tsunamis. It also aims to discover how trauma as disruption or disturbance have caused these Southeast Asian communities to redefine, extend, or alter their relationship with the primeval sea. |
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