By Karen Tongson
What queer lives, loves and chances teem inside suburbia’s little containers? relocating past the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations deals the 1st significant queer cultural examine of sexuality, race and illustration within the suburbs. concentrating on the quarter humorists have often called “Lesser Los Angeles”—a international prototype for sprawl—Karen Tongson weaves via suburbia’s “nowhere”spaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the classy, artistic and renowned fabrics of the hot suburbia.
Across southern California’s freeways, underneath its overpasses and simply past its winding cloverleaf interchanges, Tongson explores the improvisational data of queer suburban sociability, from multimedia artist Lynne Chan’s JJ Chinois tasks and the leisure park night-clubs of Eighties Orange County to the imperial legacies of the sector referred to as the Inland Empire. by way of taking a difficult examine the cosmopolitanism traditionally thought of de rigeur for queer topics, whereas enticing with the so-called “New Suburbanism” that has captivated the nationwide imaginary in every thing from way of life developments to electoral politics, Relocations substantially revises our experience of the place to determine and think queer of colour sociability, politics and desire.
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