Voci e parole creative di donne: Milk di Beverly Farmer e The Home Girls di Olga Masters

The critical foundations of this essay are Eisler’s idea of “partnership” and Panikkar’s “creative word” applied to some short stories by the Australian writers Beverly Farmer (Milk, 1983) and Olga Masters (Home Girls, 1982). I aim at showing how, despite their different biographies and cultural backgrounds, the two writers focus on feminine voices telling us of the centrality of partnership and human feeling. This unveils the cultural myth of division and antagonism between male and female created by society that Eisler defines “dominant or dominator”. Farmer and Masters defy this cultural myth of male dominance in the lyricism of everyday moments that express, mythically and metaphysically, the creative essence of life.