Relocations Queer Suburban Imaginaries

Name: Relocations Queer Suburban Imaginaries
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ISBN: 9780814783108

ISBN-10: 0814783104

ISBN-13: 9780814783108

Edition: 2011

Authors: Karen Tongson

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What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocationsoffers 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"#x13;a global prototype for sprawl#x13;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,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 299
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Karen Tongson is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at University of Southern California. She is co-editor for NYU Press’s Postmillennial Pop series and is also co-editor-in-chief of The Journal of Popular Music Studies .



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments



Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries



Relocating Queer Critique




Behind the Orange Curtain



Empire of My Familiar



The Light That Never Goes Out: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan Reclaim ï¿½Lesser Los Angelesï¿½



Coda: Love among the Ruins: Contact, Creativity, and Klub Fantasy


Notes


Index


About the Author