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Chapter 4. The Cliché as Writer’s Tool
4.1. Introduction . . . . . . . 64
4.2. The Queen of Cliché . . . . . . 67
4.3. The Real Asia . . . . . . . 69
4.4. Ex-patriots Sacrificing Themselves in a Gentleman’s Hell . 72
4.5. Poor Super Women . . . . . . 76
4.6. The Oriental Female Stereotype . . . . . 78
4.7. Asian Philosophy and Australian Indigenization . . . 82
4.8. d’Alpuget’s Neo-Orientalist Looking-Glass . . . 84
4.9. Conclusion . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 5. Asia as the Looking-Glass World
5.1. Introduction . . . . . . . 88
5.2 The ‘National Imaginary’ . . . . . 88
5.3. The Threatening ‘Other’—the 1984 Paradigm . . . 90
5.4. An Australian Alice in Wonderland . . . . 94
5.5. Into the Rabbit Hole—Through the Earth to the ‘Antipathies’ . 98
5.6. Wally O’Sullivan, et al., Inhabitants of Wonderland . . 105
5.7. Koch’s Two Enigmatic Alices . . . . . 108
5.7.1. Billy Kwan . . . . . . 108
5.7.2. Guy Hamilton . . . . . . 114
5.8. Alice on the Highway to War . . . . . 115
5.9. Conclusion . . . . . . . 118
Chapter 6. The Circular Path of Non-knowing, Doubt, and Faith
6.1. Introduction . . . . . . . 119
6.2. First Steps to Self-discovery in C. J. Koch’s Across the Sea Wall 120
6.3. d’Alpuget’s Hindu ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’. . . 122
6.4. Conclusion . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 7. The Two Realms of the Wayang Kulit
7.1. Introduction . . . . . . . 132
7.2. The Wayang Kulit Structural Model . . . . 133
7.3. Billy Kwan and the Heroic Protagonists of the Wayang Kulit . 137
7.4. Personality Types of the Wayang Kulit . . . . 138
7.4.1. Physical Manifestations of the Qualities Alus and Kasar 138
7.4.2. The Moral Consequences of Alus and Kasar Tendencies. 140
7.5. The Wayang Kulit’s Dual Points of View . . . 143
7.6. The Bar on the Edge of Reality . . . . . 146
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