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'It is the landscape, ultimately, that witnesses the leaving of home, and it is the memory of such landscape that makes us ache when recalling home. Geography owns us, but we too often deceive it. If we believe that we come from ‘country’, is leaving a denial, a betrayal? Is it possible that the costs of such infidelity might be higher for women?' -- from the first paragraph of the article.
'In this paper we have sought to characterise Rosa Cappiello’s art as the poetics of alienation, firstly in the attitude it reflects towards the dominant Anglo-Australian culture of the day and towards the ethnic communities. [...] In the second half of this paper we have viewed her poetics from a technical
point of view, focusing on her experimentation with syntactic categories in order to
create effects of fragmentation (14, 15).'