{"product_id":"relocations-queer-suburban-imaginaries-9780814783108","title":"Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat queer lives, loves, and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving beyond the embedded 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross southern California's freeways, beneath its overpasses, and just beyond its winding cloverleaf interchanges, Tongson explores the improvisational archives of queer suburban sociability, from multimedia artist Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois projects and the amusement park night-clubs of 1980s Orange County to the imperial legacies of the region known as the Inland Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy taking a hard look at the cosmopolitanism historically considered de rigeur for queer subjects, while engaging with the so-called \"New Suburbanism\" that has captivated the national imaginary in everything from lifestyle trends to electoral politics, Relocations radically revises our sense of where to see and feel queer of color sociability, politics, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Tongson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.14w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814783108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011 pg. 99\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTongson, Karen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eKaren Tongson\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183707631731,"sku":"0814783104","price":57.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2eb8b3df-4a7b-45f4-bf31-eb7f3054eb4c.jpg?v=1655558431","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/relocations-queer-suburban-imaginaries-9780814783108","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}