Big Mall by Kate Black PAPERBACK 9781552454725

Name: Big Mall by Kate Black PAPERBACK 9781552454725
Brand: Coach House Books

Coach House Books

Big MallAuthor(s): Kate Black\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Coach House Books, Canada\nImprint: Coach House Books\nISBN-13: 9781552454725, 978-1552454725\nSynopsis\nA phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?\n\nKate Black grew up in West Edmonton Mall a mall on steroids, notorious for its indoor waterpark, deadly roller coaster, and controversial dolphin shows. But everyone has a favourite mall, or a mall that is their own personal memory palace. It's a place people love to hate and hate to love a site of pleasure and pain, of death and violence, of (sub)urban legend.\n\nBlending a history of shopping with a story of coming of age in North America's largest and strangest mall,Big Mallinvestigates how these structures have become the ultimate symbol of late-capitalist dread and, surprisingly, a subversive site of hope.\n\n\""Speaking as a child of PacSun and Hot e