Writing the Dark Side of Travel - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857453416 ISBN 13: 9780857453419

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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 reveal great beauty and poignancy in the characterization of plight.

About the Author:

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004), and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006) and Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn 2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857453416
• ISBN 13: 9780857453419
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Skinner Jonathan