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The Real Westworlds

The Real Westworlds
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Author(s): Munevver Elif Gurses (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey)and Filiz Erdogan Tugran (Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Recep Yilmaz (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4903-2.ch006

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Abstract

Nowadays, with globalization, dark tourism has become one of the rising stars of popular culture and tourism trends; in fact, it has existed in human life for centuries. Although the role of the media in this popularization process is great, visits to tombs and monuments, museum visits, historical sites, and places that are remembered with negative stories actually get involved in the dark tourism activity, albeit unknowingly. Dark tourism has been the subject of academic research in the last two decades, thanks to its popularity; basically, it describes travels to places famous for death, catastrophe, natural disaster, war, or legendary narratives. The heartbeat of the “storyteller,” who had an important place for Walter Benjamin and that he defended to disappear, started to be heard again in the dark tourism event. This research is the product of an effort to rethink the storyteller through dark tourism.

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