The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction by Fox, Alistair

Paperback, very good condition, tanned edges. 230 pages Published by Otago University Press, 2008 ISBN: 1877372544

The first critical study to investigate at length how masculine subjectivities are represented in contemporary New Zealand fiction. Notoriously self-contained and private, Kiwi men are often reluctant to talk about their personal feelings and embarrassed at the thought that any private emotional difficulties could be exposed to critical examination. One must go to their imaginative literature to make contact with the reality that underlies the (often calculatedly deceptive) surface. In his investigation of these issues, Fox demonstrates the crucial importance of Pakeha and Maori cultural predispositions influencing masculine identity in this country - often at the cost of great psychic pain for the men involved.

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