ABSTRACT This article examines the articulations of Malaysian Malay female identities as performed on Senario, Malaysia’s longest produced sitcom. My close textual reading centres on the episode ‘Dalam Hati Ada Taman’ (In the heart is a garden) to identify three dimensions of female and gender constructions in Malay television; alternative constructions to traditional Malay female identities, negative portrayals of these non-traditional Malay females, and the incompatibility of non-Malay influences to traditional Malay female roles. The discussion demonstrates that all three function to reaffirm the resilience and rigidity of socially conceptualised notions of each mode of gender that are underpinned by more traditional understandings which are largely patriarchal. More broadly, the analysis foregrounds the slippage between dominant Malay social realities and screen media as well as the linkages between communal understandings of gender modes, and popularly interpreted notions of ‘tradition’ and/or ‘culture’. By identifying the televisual performances of female identities in ‘Dalam Hati Ada Taman’, it is hoped that this paper is a meaningful step towards addressing the present lacuna of critical scholarship on Malay television gender and female representations.

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在马来电视中构成（女性）男性

摘要 本文考察了马来西亚制作时间最长的情景喜剧 Senario 中对马来西亚马来女性身份的表达。我的近距离文本阅读集中在“Dalam Hati Ada Taman”一集（心中是花园）以识别马来电视中女性和性别结构的三个维度；传统马来女性身份的替代结构，对这些非传统马来女性的负面描绘，以及非马来人对传统马来女性角色的影响。讨论表明，所有三个功能都可以重申每种性别模式的社会概念化观念的弹性和刚性，这些观念以更传统的理解为基础，主要是父权制。更广泛地，该分析突出了主导马来社会现实与屏幕媒体之间的滑移，以及对性别模式的公共理解与普遍解释的“传统”和/或“文化”概念之间的联系。通过确定“Dalam Hati Ada Taman”中女性身份的电视表演，希望本文是朝着解决目前关于马来电视性别和女性代表的批判性学术空白的有意义的一步。