Writing the Dark Side of Travel [Paperback]

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 humanitys 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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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.Sebalds 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 Spains Camino de Santiago
Keith Egan

Chapter 6.Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Nepalis during Nepals 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 Australias Stolen Generatil#