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'As more work emerges on the writing and art of European, British and American women produced over the last three centuries in what was known as the 'East' and the 'Orient,' the complicated nature of 'Orientalism' is becoming increasingly clear. In this essay, I examine some writing and paintings of Hilda Rix Nicholas in two visits to Morocco made by the Australian artist and her sister Elsie Rix during 1912 and 1914. I argue that Rix Nicholas occupied a counter-Orientalist position n the point of view she expressed in not only her letters, drawings and pictures, but also crucially in a lecture she delivered to the Woman's Society of Painters in 1920 after she had returned to Australia.' (92)

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y Hecate vol. 42 no. 1 2016 10753075 2016 periodical issue Abstract
Hecate has from the mid-1970s published work from cross-disciplinary perspectives that contest hegemonic received ideas regarding gender, class, ethnicity and race, and sexualities, and how these things have played out at particular times in particular places. In this issue, Fiona Duthie's article discusses some female characters in Janette Turner Hospital's novels who aim at 'interesting forms of internationalism' and who challenge 'cultural and political systems that seek to enforce division,' so that the can try 'to achieve the truth and justice thy so earnestly desire against the backdrop of the general bleakness.' While this could be said of many fictional female characters in much of the literature of the past decades, the reference her to 'bleakness' seems particularly apposite when 'interpreting the world' in 2016.' (Editorial 4)
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