Document Type
Creative Non-Fiction
Publication Date
11-15-2023
Abstract
In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well as the present-day threat of catastrophic flooding.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Kaler, Amy.
"Before Showtime."
The Goose, vol. 20
,
no.
1
, article 19,
2023,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol20/iss1/19.
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