Writing the dark side of travel
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Writing the dark side of travel
Berghahn Books, 2012
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
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