male-bonding in Australian fiction?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

OK, anyway: it seems likely that a malely bonded Finnish voice art
combo will attend the Sydney Biennale this year. We'd perform during
the opening week between May 12 and May 15.

I recall that you p-list Ozians are from Melbourne, but should any
lister be around in Sydney at the time, it certainly would be nice
to meet.


Heikki

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, John Bailey wrote:

> 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
> >
> > I do find Richard Flanagan pretty interesting--each of his novels is really
> > different tho the last couple didn't pique my interest
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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"
> >>
> >> also Tim Winton "Breath"
> >>
> >> J
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.last.fm/user/Auto_Da_Fe
> >> http://www.pop.nu/en/show_collection.asp?user=2412
> >> http://www.librarything.com/profile/Auto_Da_Fe
> >> http://www.thedetails.co.uk/
> >
> >
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