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34 Park Road: Ambiguities lived in suburban story
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34 Park Road: Ambiguities lived in suburban story

Pamela Greet
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Creative Arts, University of the Sunshine Coast
2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00637
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suburban dwelling connectedness place space
The paper on seeing itself all spotted by the murky blackness of the ink grieves over it; and this ink shows it that by the words which it composes upon it it becomes the cause of its preservation. (da Vinci 1954, p. 421) This Doctorate of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) addresses the question, 'How can a story of suburban dwelling be created to bring to life the potency and particularity of place and space for human connectedness in contemporary Australian cities?' The following original novel and accompanying exegesis reflect my concern with the necessity of addressing the issues of identity, of belonging and of being, in times that challenge accepted verities. To address these issues, I created a work of fiction '34 Park Road'. This novel has grown, since I first walked past the building fictionalised in my story, from my interrogations of the locality and through the imagined population of that corner of suburban Brisbane, into a narrative of ordinary lives that is deeply rooted in the quotidian and the mundane. I ask, 'If the city is a text, how do we write it to show the nuanced particularities of life in the suburbs in their rich ambiguity and possibility?' Both novel and exegesis address this query by testing how the phenomenology of quotidian suburban experiences can be narrated to foreground the invisible connective social infrastructure that holds us together and creates patterns of meaning.

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