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This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists. Challenging the straightforward view of the Anzac obsession as a kind of nationalistic military Halloween, it shows how transnational developments in tourism and commemoration have created the conditions for a complex, dissonant emotional experience of sadness, humility, anger, pride and empathy among Anzac tourists. Drawing on the in-depth testimonies of travellers from Australia and New Zealand, McKay shines a new and more complex light on the history and cultural politics of the Anzac myth. As well as making a ground breaking, empirically-based intervention into the culture wars, this book offers new insights into the global memory boom and transnational developments in backpacker tourism, sports tourism and ?dark? or ?dissonant? tourism.
| Author: Jim McKay |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Jun 04, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 185 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 9811300259 |
| ISBN-13: 9789811300257 |
