male-bonding in Australian fiction?

[John Bailey]

No more male bonding in Aus. fiction than anywhere else, as far as I
can tell. There is a strong current of female bonding in Oz literature
since the 70s I suppose, but again that's probably not specific to the
country.

My understanding of the term 'homosocial' is from it being used to
describe how male-male stories can reinforce social divisions along
gender lines. Historical fiction that uses the dynamics between men to
explore the building of a nation, for instance, sort of implies that
said nation was built by men.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:54 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> ah, but Carey also wrote Oscar & Lucinda
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> I do find Richard Flanagan pretty interesting--each of his novels is really
> different tho the last couple didn't pique my interest
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> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In Carey's own fiction: the two brothers in "Theft", Jack Maggs and
>> Titus Oates in "Jack Maggs", The Kelly Gang in "The True History of
>> The Kelly Gang"
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>> also Tim Winton "Breath"
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>> J
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>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Heikki writes:
>> > "But still, male bonding is relatively frequent in Am Lit, repressively
>> > erotic (as Fiedler thinks) or not (as we think). Or is this a matter
>> > of dispute too?"
>> >
>> > Not in dispute, I think we might agree...and I'm not venturing into the
>> > territory, so to speak, but just wondering trivially if Australia has a lot
>> > of fiction with 'male bonding"....Carey is Australian.
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