DR Mulaika Hijjas' Outputs (3)

Not Just Fryers of Bananas and Sweet Potatoes: Literate and Literary Women in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World (2010)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2010). Not Just Fryers of Bananas and Sweet Potatoes: Literate and Literary Women in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 41(1), 153-172. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463409990294

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