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

• Autores: Nicholas Manganas
• Localización: Coolabah, ISSN-e 1988-5946, Nº. 24-25, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Reimagining Australia), págs. 352-362
• Idioma: inglés
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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.