male-bonding in Australian fiction?

[John Bailey]

There's but the one p-list ozian I'm aware of but he'd love to get to
the biennale to catch the choir. Will make a note of it.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Heikki
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> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, John Bailey wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?"
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>> >> > 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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>> >> --
>> >> 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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