TY - JOUR AU - Yin, Christina PY - 2021/09/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Goodbye on the Seas: Rising Waters, Submerging Lives JF - eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics JA - eTropic VL - 20 IS - 2 SE - Speculative Fiction DO - 10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3818 UR - https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3818 SP - 251-263 AB - <p>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.</p> ER -