Virtual Dark Tourism: Ghost Roads (palgrave Studies In Cultural Heritage And Conflict)
by Kathryn N. McDaniel /
2018 / English / PDF
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This book takes the concept of “dark tourism”―journeys to sites
of death, suffering, and calamity―in an innovative yet essential
direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature,
film and television, the Internet, and gaming. Essays focus both
on the creative construction of imaginary journeys and the
historiographic and civic consequences of such memorializations.
From World War II time-travel novels to
This book takes the concept of “dark tourism”―journeys to sites
of death, suffering, and calamity―in an innovative yet essential
direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature,
film and television, the Internet, and gaming. Essays focus both
on the creative construction of imaginary journeys and the
historiographic and civic consequences of such memorializations.
From World War II time-travel novels toGame of Thrones
Game of Thrones,
and from Internet reproductions of Rwandan genocide locations to
invented tragedies in futuristic domains, authors from various
fields examine the purpose and influence of simulated travels to
morbid sites. Designed for a wide audience of scholars and
travelers virtual and real, this volume raises awareness about
the many pathways through which we encounter death experiences in
contemporary society. What we know about the past―or, what we
think we know about it―is shaped daily by such imagined journeys
as these.
,
and from Internet reproductions of Rwandan genocide locations to
invented tragedies in futuristic domains, authors from various
fields examine the purpose and influence of simulated travels to
morbid sites. Designed for a wide audience of scholars and
travelers virtual and real, this volume raises awareness about
the many pathways through which we encounter death experiences in
contemporary society. What we know about the past―or, what we
think we know about it―is shaped daily by such imagined journeys
as these.
