Tan takes these tropes and ironically re-deploys them anew, and in doing so undermines anti-suburban sentiment, which has dominated Australian literary and popular culture.Īlthough the notion of anti-suburbanism in Australian fiction has been well documented, its presence in children’s literature has received far less attention. Typically, suburban spaces have been represented as aesthetically bland, mundane, and ornamental. This paper explores how, through word and image, Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia challenges stereotypical representations of the suburban. Shaun Tan, Tales From Outer Suburbia, suburbs, Australian children's literature Abstract
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