Dark Tourism: Dramas of Absence

Willis, Emma

dc.contributor.author	Willis, Emma	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-18T00:59:39Z	en
dc.date.issued	2015-10-06	en
dc.identifier.citation	"Hitler Oaks, Dark Tourism, Holocaust Memorial Spaces: Ann Shelton, Emma Willis, Miri Young. City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand., 2015	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27822	en
dc.description.abstract	The term 'dark tourism' was coined in 2000 to describe the popularity of sites of death and disaster. Such sites range from memorials, to sites of assassination, to natural or man-made calamity zone, and differ in mode from the austere to the kitsch to the thrill-seeking. Why these places are so compelling for visitors? I tease out the question and also consider the sense in which dark tourism attractions perform a kind of tragic drama for us. As Helene Cixous writes of the theatre, while we may chase away thoughts of death and suffering from our everyday lives, 'it is this part of life that theatre returns to us: the living part of death, or the mortal part of life.'	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	"Hitler Oaks, Dark Tourism, Holocaust Memorial Spaces: Ann Shelton, Emma Willis, Miri Young. City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.	en
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dc.title	Dark Tourism: Dramas of Absence	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
pubs.author-url	http://citygallery.org.nz/events/talk-and-film-screening-hitler-oaks-dark-tourism-and-holocaust-memorial-spaces	en
pubs.finish-date	2015-10-06	en
pubs.start-date	2015-10-06	en
dc.rights.accessrights	http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess	en
pubs.subtype	Oral Presentation (Not presented at a conference)	en
pubs.elements-id	508106	en
pubs.org-id	Arts	en
pubs.org-id	Humanities	en
pubs.org-id	English and Drama	en
pubs.record-created-at-source-date	2015-12-01	en