This session wishes to examine the concept of fracture as it relates to art and literature from East Southeast Asia and the diaspora. A central line of inquiry is to engage how poets, filmmakers, graphic novelists, and others produce fractured works in response to war, occupation, exile, uprisings, displacement, and division. In what ways are such frameworks also constructed by and resistant to Empire? What role does Empire play in its relationship to East and Southeast Asian cultural, political, and artistic productions? Cross-geographic presentations are welcomed and encouraged.