The first half of this thesis opens up a queer and transnational terrain of literary self-construction through the symbol of “Greece,” which it reads through Eve Sedgwick’s identification of the shared etymology of “queer” and trans-, to schematise the generative capacity of the always-already queer modalities of masculinity within cultural-nationalist imaginaries. All these authors occupy distinct positions in Australian literature their work crosses fiction and biography to articulate narratives of “outsider” subjectivity and experience that challenge cultural-nationalist formations. This thesis examines the representation of nation and masculinity in the work of Australian authors Martin Boyd, Patrick White, Sumner Locke Elliott, and Christos Tsiolkas across the mid-late twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
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