Science and Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia

Course Details

  • Acronym SEASIA 377
  • Instructor(s) Nazry Bahrawi
  • Quarter Winter 2027
  • Credits 5
  • Meeting Times MW 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
  • Location SIG 227

Course Description

Introduces works of science and speculative fiction from Southeast Asia. Explores how these two fantastical genres (too oftentimes linked to Euro-American cultures) act as thought experiments for Southeast Asians to deal with real world issues of climate change, racial supremacy, and technological utopianism, symptoms of the darker side of modernity.