Decomposing Suburbia: Patrick White’s Perversity
1998; University of Queensland Press; Linguagem: Inglês
10.20314/als.c705e2407a
ISSN1837-6479
Autores Tópico(s)Literature: history, themes, analysis
ResumoWhile Patrick White's writing is often vehemently anti-suburban, it is seldom interested in simplistic notions of physical escape or flight. On the contrary, White's resistance to suburbia frequently consists in staging the instability and potential perversity inherent in forms of representation that consolidate a commercialised image of the good life. Suburbia in White's writing is less a place than an aesthetic practice that attempts to enforce a certain kind of representational prohibition, screening out that which disturbs the suburban idyll and its orientation to conjugality and consumerism.
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