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Victorious Wives: The Disguised Heroine in 19h-Century Malay Syair
Mulaika Hijjas
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Description for Victorious Wives: The Disguised Heroine in 19h-Century Malay Syair
Paperback. Engages with poems not as historical documents to be mined for data but as complex literary works. It develops a nuanced textual analysis of this material, and explores the interplay between social reality and literary fiction. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In Victorious Wives, Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay literature in a new light. The relatively equal gender relations in Southeast Asia have long been presented as a defining characteristic of the region, but there are few detailed case studies of pre-modern women or women's literature to illustrate this point, and studies of women in traditional literature have of necessity relied on texts that expressed masculine viewpoints. The syair of the Riau Archipelago that are the basis of this book, six nineteenth-century Malay narrative poems, are ... Read more
In Victorious Wives, Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay literature in a new light. The relatively equal gender relations in Southeast Asia have long been presented as a defining characteristic of the region, but there are few detailed case studies of pre-modern women or women's literature to illustrate this point, and studies of women in traditional literature have of necessity relied on texts that expressed masculine viewpoints. The syair of the Riau Archipelago that are the basis of this book, six nineteenth-century Malay narrative poems, are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971695262
SKU
V9789971695262
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Ref
99-15
About Mulaika Hijjas
Originally from Kuala Lumpur, Mulaika Hijjas studied at Harvard College and the University of Oxford before earning a PhD in traditional Malay literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London. She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia, SOAS.
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