Relocations: queer suburban imaginaries
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Main Author: Tongson, Karen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York New York University Press ©2011
Series:Sexual cultures
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as "Lesser Los Angeles"--A global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's "nowhere"spaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia
Relocations: queer suburban imaginaries -- Relocating queer critique: Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois -- Behind the orange curtain -- Empire of my familiar -- The light that never goes out: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan reclaim "lesser Los Angeles" -- Coda: love among the ruins: contact, creativity, and Klub Fantasy
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 283 pages)
ISBN:0814769675
0814783090
0814783104
0814784089
9780814769676
9780814783092
9780814783108
9780814784082

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