Queering and querying the Australian suburbs: reimagining (sub)urban identities

Manganas, N

Queering and querying the Australian suburbs: reimagining (sub)urban identities

Manganas, N

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Publisher:: Universitat de Barcelona
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Coolabah, 2018, 2018 (24 & 25), pp. 352 - 362 (10)
Issue Date:: 2018-05-01

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dc.contributor.author	Manganas, N https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-2531	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-05-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Coolabah, 2018, 2018 (24 & 25), pp. 352 - 362 (10)	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1988-5946	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/124293
dc.description.abstract	This article takes an autobiographical approach to explore the changes that have occurred in Australian suburbia over the past twenty years. It considers two key queer texts—Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded (1995) and Peter Polites’s Down the Hume (2017)—and the manner in which the protagonists of these novels express their class and sexuality in their respective suburbanscapes. Published more than twenty years apart, I argue that the process of queering Australian suburbia that can be read in both novels opens up a space to reimagine how class, ethnic and sexual mobility is negotiated in contemporary Australia.	en_US
dc.publisher	Universitat de Barcelona	en_US
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dc.title	Queering and querying the Australian suburbs: reimagining (sub)urban identities	en_US
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Abstract:

This article takes an autobiographical approach to explore the changes that have occurred in Australian suburbia over the past twenty years. It considers two key queer texts—Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded (1995) and Peter Polites’s Down the Hume (2017)—and the manner in which the protagonists of these novels express their class and sexuality in their respective suburbanscapes. Published more than twenty years apart, I argue that the process of queering Australian suburbia that can be read in both novels opens up a space to reimagine how class, ethnic and sexual mobility is negotiated in contemporary Australia.

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