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The author compares the life stories of 'Aboriginal' writers in South Australia, noting the different ways in which the writers negotiate lives lived between two cultures.
Kossew follows the novel's account of the emergence of a young woman artist from her father's physical and psychological control and her finding of her own artistic voice. She explores the social acceptance of violence as a legitimate expression of a man's passion, and the link between physical violence and artistic creation.
Staring from the landscapes in Gemmell's novels, the author explores the connection between the physical landscape, our movement across the landscape to things beyond, and our individual and national identity.
The author shows how Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments and Teo Hsu-Ming's Love and Vertigo use satire and irony to produce writing that resists and subverts colonial dominance.
The author sees the stereotypical erotic images of 'Asian' women on book covers as continuing the sexual colonisation of the Third World exemplified by the 'Butterfly trope'. However, today oriental women's voices are being heard in their own right. Wei Hui's semi-autobiographical character Coco in Shanghai Baby both craves a Western lifestyle, and remains attached to her Chinese 'soul'.