A Boy of Embers and Ash and Disturbances: The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult
This thesis utilises creative practice as a research methodology to explore the haunted condition of the Australian queer young adult subject through a novel, A Boy of Embers and Ash, and an accompanying exegesis, ‘Disturbances: the spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult’. It employs...
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| description | This thesis utilises creative practice as a research methodology to explore the haunted condition of the Australian queer young adult subject through a novel, A Boy of Embers and Ash, and an accompanying exegesis, ‘Disturbances: the spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult’. It employs spectral theory to suggest an intersubjective relationship between queer youth and their ghostly historical forebears, proposing new possibilities for agency liberated from the imperative towards visibility and presence. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-925472025-07-17T05:03:25Z A Boy of Embers and Ash and Disturbances: The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult Kealley, Adam This thesis utilises creative practice as a research methodology to explore the haunted condition of the Australian queer young adult subject through a novel, A Boy of Embers and Ash, and an accompanying exegesis, ‘Disturbances: the spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult’. It employs spectral theory to suggest an intersubjective relationship between queer youth and their ghostly historical forebears, proposing new possibilities for agency liberated from the imperative towards visibility and presence. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92547 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Kealley, Adam A Boy of Embers and Ash and Disturbances: The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult |
| title | A Boy of Embers and Ash
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Disturbances:
The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult |
| title_full | A Boy of Embers and Ash
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Disturbances:
The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult |
| title_fullStr | A Boy of Embers and Ash
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Disturbances:
The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Boy of Embers and Ash
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Disturbances:
The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult |
| title_short | A Boy of Embers and Ash
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Disturbances:
The spectral condition of the Australian queer young adult |
| title_sort | boy of embers and ash
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disturbances:
the spectral condition of the australian queer young adult |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92547 |