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.
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Writing the Dark Side of Travel
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of 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. Sebaldās 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 Spainās Camino de Santiago
- Chapter 6. Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Nepalis during Nepalās Civil War
- Chapter 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 Australiaās Stolen Generationsā 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
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