Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and alongside the suffering, the authors give us a tour of humanity’s violence and misery. And yet, from this dark side, there comes great beauty and poignancy in the characterization of plight; creativity in the comic, graphic, and graffiti sketches and comments on life; and the sense of profound and spiritual journeys being undertaken, recorded, and memorialized.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 6 mm
Vikt304 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9780857453419

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Writings on the Dark Side of TravelJonathan SkinnerChapter 1. Between Trauma and Healing: Tourism and Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Divided SocietiesJohn NagleChapter 2. Sebald’s Ghosts: Travelling among the Dead in The Rings of SaturnSimon CookeChapter 3. Graphic Wounds: The Comics Journalism of Joe SaccoTristram WalkerChapter 4. Visiting Rwanda: Accounts of Genocide in Travel WritingRachel MoffatChapter 5. Walking Back to Happiness? Modern Pilgrimage and the Expression of Suffering on Spain’s Camino de SantiagoKeith EganChapter 6. Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Nepalis during Nepal’s Civil WarSharon HepburnChapter 7. Beyond Frames: The Creation of a Dance Company in Healthcare through the Journey of Brain TraumaJenny ElliottChapter 8. The House on the Hill: An Analysis of Australia’s Stolen Generations’ Journey into Healing through the Site ofTraumaFiona MurphyChapter 9. Exploring Landscapes after Battle: Tourists at home on the old Front LinesJennifer IlesNotes on Contributors

“The greatest insights and discoveries come from actively exploring and mapping out the fertile connections between the different essays. If readers are willing to do this, they will, I think, ultimately find that the book provides a very stimulating engagement with both the dark side of travel, and the dark side of travel writing.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This volume is truly coherent and contributes to a better understanding of a little appreciated aspect of contemporary tourism. It will certainly become a standard reference work in the field of anthropology of tourism and tourism studies. Despite the “darkness” of the issues addressed, it must be considered a very colourful success.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale