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Queering and Querying the Australian Suburbs : Reimagining (sub)urban Identities single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Queering and Querying the Australian Suburbs : Reimagining (sub)urban Identities
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'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.' (Publication abstract)

Notes

  • Epigraph: I had that Western Sydney patois that divided us two like the M5. (Polites 2017, 89)

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    y separately published work icon Coolabah Reimagining Australia no. 24/25 2018 13969346 2018 periodical issue

    'This special double issue of Coolabah, numbers 24&25, was developed from selected presentations at Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility, the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference 2016, hosted by the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, and held in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 7-9 December. The double issue addresses the urgent need for Australia to be reimagined as inclusive, conscious of its landscape and contexts, locale, history, myths and memory, amnesia, politics, cultures and futures; reimagined via intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue; reimagined through different ways of knowing, belonging and doing. Key agendas, polemics and contestations at stake in this two-part publication project are raised in Tony Birch’s thought-provoking article that serves equally as an introductory essay.'  (Introduction)

         2018     pg. 352-362
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352-362 Queering and Querying the Australian Suburbs : Reimagining (sub)urban Identitiessmall AustLit logo Coolabah
Subjects:
  • Loaded Christos Tsiolkas , 1995 single work novel
  • Down the Hume Peter Polites , 2017 single work novel
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