'Growing up an Australian': Renegotiating Mateship, Masculinity and 'Australianness' in Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon

doi:10.4324/9781315869537-10

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'Growing up an Australian': Renegotiating Mateship, Masculinity and 'Australianness' in Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon

ABSTRACT

Let us stop deceiving ourselves that we were cast in the mould of Bligh, Wentworth, Ned Kelly, the ANZACS, and other tough, devil-may-care characters of historical fact and fiction.