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The Work of Romance: Creating Moral Worth in Malay Women's Writing

By Alicia Izharuddin, Allison Alexy (Editor)
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By Alicia Izharuddin, Allison Alexy (Editor)
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In the Malay print romance industry, love stories are far more than entertainment. Emerging in the late 1980s amidst rapid social and cultural change, the genre gained popularity and continues to thrive, functioning as diversion, medicine, identity creation, and destiny for thousands of women. Above all, it constitutes serious work.

Malay women have established themselves as authors, editors, publishers, and devoted readers within the romance literary landscape, navigating between Islamic te...