Writing the dark side of travel

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Writing the dark side of travel

edited by Jonathan Skinner

Berghahn Books, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel Jonathan Skinner Chapter 1. Between Trauma and Healing: Tourism and Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Divided Societies John Nagle Chapter 2. Sebald's Ghosts: Travelling among the Dead in The Rings of Saturn Simon Cooke Chapter 3. Graphic Wounds: The Comics Journalism of Joe Sacco Tristram Walker Chapter 4. Visiting Rwanda: Accounts of Genocide in Travel Writing Rachel Moffat Chapter 5. Walking Back to Happiness? Modern Pilgrimage and the Expression of Suffering on Spain's Camino de Santiago Keith Egan Chapter 6. Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Nepalis during Nepal's Civil War Sharon Hepburn Chapter 7. Beyond Frames: The Creation of a Dance Company in Healthcare through the Journey of Brain Trauma Jenny Elliott Chapter 8. The House on the Hill: An Analysis of Australia's Stolen Generations' Journey into Healing through the Site of Trauma Fiona Murphy Chapter 9. Exploring Landscapes after Battle: Tourists at home on the old Front Lines Jennifer Iles Notes on Contributors

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