Suburbs
Articles
- Neither Here Nor There: Suburban Voices in Australian Poetry
In a 1996 interview Chris Wallace-Crabbe observed: 'There was a stage when those of us who wrote about the scorned suburbs were looked down on…
1 November 1998 - Introduction : Subtopia, or the Problem of Suburbia
Suburbia has been a neuralgic point in debates about Australian culture and Australian identity since the end of the nineteenth century. Louis Esson's 1911 diatribe…
1 November 1998 - The Pursuit of Oblivion: In Flight from Suburbia
This essay is an exploration of the suburban imaginary in David Ireland's The Glass Canoe (1976), Bruce Dawe's Condolences of the Season (1971) and Christos…
1 November 1998 - Decomposing Suburbia: Patrick White’s Perversity
Suburbia, whatever else it may be, is also a euphemism for normality. As such it has become central to representations of transgression, deviance or perversion…
1 November 1998 - Subdivisions of Suburbia: The Politics of Place in Melissa Lucashenko’s ‘Steam Pigs’ and Amanda Lohrey’s ‘Camille’s Bread’
The Australian intelligentsia's critical or ambivalent response to the suburbs and suburbia has been well-documented, though the gender-blindness of urban theorising often goes unremarked (Harman…
1 November 1998 - Alan Wearne : Interview1 November 1998
- Shopping at Last!: History, Fiction and the Anti-Suburban Tradition
The well-known line of anti-suburban criticism that we associate with the Barry Humphries of the 1950s actually had its beginnings as a manifesto of the…
1 November 1998 - Shit Creek: Suburbia, Abjection and Subjectivity in Australian ‘Grunge’ Fiction
The popular reception of Andrew McGahan's Praise in 1992 and the subsequent publication of 'a bunch of novels that seemed to share a number of…
1 November 1998 - The Suburban Problem of Evil
Our first scene is a Western Sydney suburban lounge-room seventeen years ago. It is very clean and tidy and full of shelves and little tables…
1 November 1998 - How to Use a Street Directory : Detail and Knowledge in the Work of Alan Wearne
How is it that we can find our way around a city if we think that every street, every suburb, looks the same? The devil…
1 November 1998
Contributors
- Karen Brooks
- Martin Duwell
- Martin Duwell
- Margaret Henderson
- Joan Kirkby
- Garry Kinnane
- David McCooey
- Andrew McCann
- Andrew McCann
- Jennifer Maiden
- Alan Wearne