Victorious wives the disguised heroine in 19th-century Malay syair

"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 regi...

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Main Author: Hijjas, Mulaika
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore Kuala Lumpur NUS Press ; Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2011.
Series:Monographs of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 44.
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