We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will be guest edited by Weihsin Gui (University of California-Riverside) and Cheryl Narumi Naruse (Tulane University).

Although there are numerous monographs and essay anthologies in the social sciences on the political, historical, and social ties between Southeast Asia and Australia, with one exception there has not been a recent substantive study of literary and cultural productions that arise because of such connections. José Wendell Capili’s recent literary history, Migrations and Mediations (2016), traces the emergence and growth of Southeast Asian diasporic writing in Australia from the 1970s to the present day. Building on Capili’s work, we welcome essays on authors such as Teo Hsu-ming, Lau Siew Mei, Simone Lazaroo, Beth Yahp, Julie Koh, Dewi Anggraeni, Nam Le, Hoa Pham, Merlinda Bobis, Arlene Chai among others.