ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together the cultural productions and the diverse materiality embedded in a country town to explore the ways in which this affective place produces a network of events, objects and associations that challenge ordinary orders of representation. Hometown challenges established structures of thought about place and memory through the intimate portrayal of a multidirectional postcoloniality, topographies of sexuality and intense local eruptions across species through spaces reimagined as atmospheres. Hometown is thus a description of both the place, and the process, that produces a particular queered sensibility that makes the 'rural Australian town' available to queer inventions and futures. Reorganising that 'American' form of 'hometown' is imagined here as an energetic dissonance, not stable in its nostalgia and not quite 'Australian' but useful and delightful as a queer turn. Hometown is, instead, post-possessory, convening the conditions that make country queerdom sustainable within time while producing the settler/colonial space for eruptive and continuous forms of intimacy.
