All Visitors Aboard and Dumb

These two novels from the White, male and realist tradition reveal that the Pakeha male writer is still very much alive and kicking—is he what. The paper will explore how men have been empowered and disempowered and include discussion on the sexual politics implicit in other such seminal male gender texts as Man Can Do It Alone, The Odd Boy, The Good Keen Ram and so on. When the time comes would the last White (straight) male, realist writer still standing in New Zealand please close the door before he leaves?