Cirrus@Austlit

'Australia features large and often in Portuguese non-fiction dealing with East Timor. In general, as might be expected, Australia is perceived extremely negatively as the obstructor of decolonisation and facilitator of Indonesian oppression, seen in the Portuguese media, and in official Portuguese discourse, as a hypocritical lackey of the hypocritical U.S. This article will examine some of the relatively few fictional narratives in Portuguese that deal with East Timor for the ways in which they construct Australia and the aspects of the issues they concentrate on, in part to determine how the emphases visible in non-fictional sources have been developed or not within the resources of fiction' (Author's abstract).