Relocations : Queer Suburban Imaginaries / Karen Tongson.
Tongson, Karen, author.
2011
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Title Relocations : Queer Suburban Imaginaries / Karen Tongson.
Author Tongson, Karen, author.
ISBN 9780814769676
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814769676.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814769676.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76/620973091733
Summary 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.Across southern California's freeways, beneath its overpasses and just beyond its winding cloverleaf interchanges, Tongson explores the improvisational archives of queer suburban sociability, from multimedia artist Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois projects and the amusement park night-clubs of 1980s Orange County to the imperial legacies of the region known as the Inland Empire. By taking a hard look at the cosmopolitanism historically considered de rigeur for queer subjects, while engaging with the so-called "New Suburbanism" that has captivated the national imaginary in everything from lifestyle trends to electoral politics, Relocations radically revises our sense of where to see and feel queer of color sociability, politics and desire.
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Series Sexual Cultures ; ; 40
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814783092
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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Relocations
2. Relocating Queer Critique
3. Behind the Orange Curtain
4. Empire of My Familiar
5. The Light That Never Goes Out
6. Coda: Love among the Ruins
Notes
Index
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