Open AccessGoodbye on the Seas: Rising Waters, Submerging Lives
Author(s) -
Christina Yin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
etropic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1448-2940
DOI - 10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3818
Subject(s) - demise , memoir , china , futures contract , dystopia , oceanography , geography , the imaginary , history , pandemic , covid-19 , archaeology , political science , geology , psychology , financial economics , law , economics , psychotherapist , art history , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This hybrid memoir begins and ends with a sea journey. Combining real-life story and dystopian tropical imaginary, the author takes us to the Straits of Malacca off the coast of Peninsular Malaysia, to futures of submerged cities in 2050, and on a final journey into the South China Sea off the coast of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. This is a story of climate change and rising seas entwining vignettes of pandemic lockdown, of a father’s dying, and the author’s future life submerged. It questions human survival in a world of demise, shaped by pandemic and surrounded by waters slowly but inexorably rising.