Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

by Karen Tongson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814783104
• ISBN13: 9780814783108
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"