The corporeal and monstrosity of supernatural entities: towards a socio-functional illustration of Pontianak in Tunku Halim's “Horror Stories”
Female characters in horror fiction are often constructed by the image of their body, which emphasises an innermost marker as sexual beings. The current study focuses on the depiction of Pontianak, a supernatural entity famous in Malay folklore, in selected short stories written by Tunku Halim. A cr...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2023
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22728/1/TT%204.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22728/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1618 |
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