Victorious Wives: the Disguised Heroine in 19th-Century Malay Syair
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Mulaika Hijjas
Hijjas examines six syair, narrative poems, from the Riau Archipelago of the 19th century to discover that women were not always portrayed as unequal to men. These syair allow an unusual access to women's imaginative worlds where fiction and social reality have a more complex relationship than one might imagine. New Paperback. First Edition 324 pages with a bibliography an an index.
Weight: 0.7 kg Post free within Malaysia
