Cirrus@Austlit

Compares poetry by Australian and Indian women writers, and finds similarities in their socio-historical backgrounds, themes and stylistic approaches.

Discusses, compares and contrasts the writings of Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko and Western Australian Yamatji writer Janice Slater-Herring, and their ways of reconciling indigenous traditions and the demands of the present.

Analyses Praed's novel and contrasts it with depictions of Japanese women in other western fiction which illustrate the 'Butterfly phenomenon' - the exoticisation of Japanese women and portrayals of the inevitable tragedy in relationships between them and western men. She finds Praed's novel remarkably free of romanticising and sees it as providing a fairly clear-eyed view of an actual country. 'Praed's perspective as a female, expatriate writer enabled her to approach Japan from a different perspective to that of male writers who had their own, masculine versions of Orientalism' (170).

Analyses poems by white Australian authors about dispossession of their land. In his survey of attitudes and poetic technique, Page examines nineteenth and twentieth century poems and finds a reversal of attitudes over time.