Relocations: queer suburban imaginaries

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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

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Full title :Relocations : queer suburban imaginaries / Karen Tongson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New York University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 283 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780814784082, 0814784089, 9780814769676, 0814769675
oclc:ocn746336901
LC Classification:HQ76.3.U5
Dewey Decimal:306.76/620973091733

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.

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Gays -- Social conditions Gays -- Social conditions. -- United St… Homosexualité -- Conditions sociales. -… Homosexuality -- Social conditions. -- … Homosexuels -- Conditions sociales. -- … LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies Suburbs -- Social conditions Suburbs -- Social conditions. -- United… United States