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human body can be explored. Brooks states that
Berridge's short stories provide "...a variety of violent, disaffected and often abject young people", characters who "...blur and often overturn" the boundaries between suburban and urban space. Brooks states that the marginalized characters in
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book which "...explor the psychosocial and psychosexual limitations of young sub/urban characters in relation to the imaginary and socially constructed boundaries defining...self and other" and "opening up" new "limnal spaces" where the concept of an
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are described as being unhealthy, unclean, overweight, tattooed, having greasy hair, and living in deteriorating dwellings "that resemble the bodies who inhabit them". The
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Brooks, Karen (1998). "Shit Creek: Suburbia, Abjection and
Subjectivity in Australian 'Grunge' Fiction".
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