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Writing the dark side of travel / edited by Jonathan Skinner.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel--Psychological aspects.
- Travel.
- Social problems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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; creat
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel; Chapter 1 - Between Trauma and Healing: Tourism and Neoliberal Peace Building in Divided Societies; Chapter 2 - Sebald's Ghosts: Traveling among the Dead in The Rings of Saturn; Chapter 3 - Graphic Wounds: The Comics Journalism of Joe Sacco; Chapter 4 - Visiting Rwanda: Accounts of Genocide in Travel Writing; Chapter 5 - Walking Back to Happiness? Modern Pilgrimage and the Expression of Suffering on Spain's Camino de Santiago
- Chapter 6 - Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Neaplis during Nepal's Civil WarChapter 7 - Beyond Frames: The Creation of a Dance Company in Healthcare through the Journey of Brain Trauma; Chapter 8 - The House on the Hill: An Analysis of Australia's Stolen Generations' Journey into Healing through the Site of Trauma; Chapter 9 - Exploring Landscapes after Battle: Tourists at Home on the Old Front Lines; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857458766
- 0857458760
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