Aims and Scope

SARE's aim is to draw attention to original scholarship in the North and the South on a variety of genres such as literary fiction and non-fiction (including essays, memoirs, reportage, and travel writing), popular fiction, theatre, drama, poetry, film and other visual arts as well as popular cultural texts and performances principally from Southeast, South, and East Asia. SARE also invites submissions that are concerned with diasporic sites of cultural and knowledge production.

In this spirit, SARE welcomes: 

  • Scholarly articles on literary and cultural studies related to Southeast, South, and East Asia;
  • Special issues with a thematic or regional focus;
  • Interviews with writers, activists, artists, critics, or theorists of the region;
  • Book, film, or performance reviews, including reviews of literary or cultural criticism on the region and of novels, short fiction, poetry, plays, essays,  art/photography, and digital and new media works by writers of the region;
  • Creative writing by established, emerging, or previously unpublished writers in the form of poems, prose poems, short stories, self-contained novel excerpts as well as essays of creative non-fiction.