All Outputs (26)

The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang (2010)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2010). The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang. South East Asia Research, 18(2), 245-270. https://doi.org/10.5367/000000010791513139

This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films. In all her instantiations, the figure of Puteri Gunung Ledang can... Read More about The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang.

Victorious wives: the disguised heroine in nineteenth-century Malay syair (2010)
Book
Hijjas, M. (2010). Victorious wives: the disguised heroine in nineteenth-century Malay syair. National University of Singapore Press

Reading the Romantic Syair: Women's Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century Riau (2006)
Book Chapter
Hijjas, M. (2006). Reading the Romantic Syair: Women's Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century Riau. In J. Watkins, & M. Arai (Eds.), Proceedings of the SOAS/TUFS Postgraduate Symposium (117-129). Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

The Travels of Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk (2006)
Book Chapter
Hijjas, M. (2006). The Travels of Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk. In A. Guttman, M. Hockx, & G. Paizis (Eds.), The Global Literary Field (152-164). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Nursemaid’s Tale: Representations of the Inang in Syair Siti Zuhrah and Syair Sultan Mahmud (2005)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2005). The Nursemaid’s Tale: Representations of the Inang in Syair Siti Zuhrah and Syair Sultan Mahmud. Indonesia and the Malay World, 33(97), 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639810500448992

Women Rajas in Two Classical Malay Texts (2004)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2004). Women Rajas in Two Classical Malay Texts. Tenggara, 47/48, 39-48