Journeys and Outings: a case study in David Malouf's closet

Abblitt, Stephen

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“…The nuanced understanding of journeys and returns within each life narrative offers entry points through which to theorize the importance of movement in homemaking. Life narratives confirm the importance of journeys in the lives of lesbian‐ and gay‐identified subjects (Knopp, 2004; Abblitt, 2008). More specifically, attention to ‘narratives of return’ remind us that in conceptualizing migration in the lives of lesbian‐ and gay‐identified subjects, there is also a need to temper triumphal, uni‐directional flows that position metropolitan centres as ‘gay utopias’, condemning the lives of sexual minorities elsewhere to purgatory.…”

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confidence: 78%

Journeys and Returns: Home, Life Narratives and Remapping Sexuality in a Regional City

Waitt

Gorman‐Murray

2010

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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This article explores intersections of home, mobility and sexualities. We draw on the narrated journeys of young lesbian-and gay-identified people who left and then returned to their hometown of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Their stories of journeys and returns rupture boundaries that fashion both regional Australia as a closeted space and metropolitan centres as places of sexual tolerance. Attention to individual narratives provides a nuanced interpretation of how those initially displaced by the stigma of their sexuality opt to return. 'Finding themselves' and calling this regional centre 'home' requires transforming the spaces of Townsville both materially and symbolically. Narrated journeys and returns can contribute to recent discussions of home that emphasize the situated spatiality of subjectivity.

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confidence: 78%

Journeys and Returns: Home, Life Narratives and Remapping Sexuality in a Regional City

Waitt

Gorman‐Murray

2010

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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“…She argues movement, or passing through, is crucial to the process of creating order through helping demarcate and fix spatial boundaries and place‐based identities by giving them a value in relationship to other places. Work on the notion of home within “geographies of sexualities” has demonstrated how living outside social sex/gender norms gives a sense of urgency for movement in the lives of many individuals in order to secure a space to call home that provides coherence and stability to the self (Abblitt 2008; Brown 2000; Knopp 2004). Emphasising fluidity, Knopp (2004) argues that possibilities of an enhanced, rather than reduced, sense of self may arise for some people physically displaced by heterosexism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

Waitt

Gorman‐Murray

2011

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Helping redress the dominance of metropolitan narratives upon which much literature on sexuality is framed, this article interprets the narrative told by a "white" 16-year-old man living in regional Australia. Our aim is to investigate the intersections of migration and homemaking in sexual subject formation. Finding a place to call "home" can be a complex process for young men born in regional Australia and not conforming to the social formations of a "normal guy". This young man's narrative expressively reveals the fluidity and spatiality inherent in processes of negotiating sexual subjectivities. His story provides telling insights into how migration and mobility change his understandings of home and of self by making possible a third-space configured by neither the gender norms of his hometown nor the "gay scene" in Sydney.

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“…In this paper, we draw on the insights of other geographers who analyse literature to provide insights into spatial inequalities related to sexuality (Abblitt 2008;Björklund 2013;Brown 2006;Cooper 2009;Jazeel 2005). Specifically, given the autobiographical dimensions of Danforth's novel we draw on the work of geographers who have found autobiographical writing to be a useful data source for geographers as it opens up to scrutiny the nuances of the co-constitution of self and space (Gorman-Murray 2007;Moss 2001;Pile 2002).…”

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Queering rurality: readingThe Miseducation of Cameron Postgeographically

Pini

Keys

Marshall

2016

Children's Geographies

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This paper contributes to research on geographies of queer rural youth through an analysis of an award-winning young adult novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Danforth (2012a. The Miseducation of Cameron Post. New York: Harper Collins). Three themes from the text are explored in this paper. The first is the well documented heterosexism of rural life. We note that the main protagonist, Cameron Post, experiences rural life on the margins, not only because of her queer identity but also because of her age and gender. A second theme in Danforth's text is that rural spaces can be transgressively queer. In this respect the author subverts conflations of rurality and heterosexuality and urbanity and homosexuality as well as universalising notions of rurality as static, repressive and exclusive. The final theme emerging from a geographical reading of the text is that of placelessness. While highlighting the pervasiveness of this theme, we note that it elicits criticism from readers in relation to the book's ending as it departs from the norms of familiar coming-out-narratives. In conclusion, we emphasise the efficacy of young adult literature as a source for furthering geographic knowledge about young people and sexuality.

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Journeys and Outings: a case study in David Malouf's closet

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Journeys and Returns: Home, Life Narratives and Remapping Sexuality in a Regional City

Journeys and Returns: Home, Life Narratives and Remapping Sexuality in a Regional City

“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

Queering rurality: readingThe Miseducation of Cameron Postgeographically

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