Empty Meeting Grounds: Tourist Papers - Volume 1

Empty Meeting Grounds: Tourist Papers - Volume 1

by Dean Mac Cannell (Author)

Synopsis

Empty Meeting Grounds continues Dean MacCannell's search for the cultural subject that is about to emerge from the encounter of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It contains fascinating chapters on 'Cannibal Tours', 'The Desire to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project and the urbanization of Yosemite Park.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06 Aug 1992

ISBN 10: 0415056934
ISBN 13: 9780415056939

Media Reviews
MacCannell's strength lies in his ability to dissect this lingering disquiet, so often lying behind the gaudy innocence of the package holiday, without railing against the tourist experience from the vantage point of informed high culture.
- The Times Literary Supplement
This is a brilliant book. MacCannell unmasks the political face of terror too often occluded by scholars working within contemporary strands of cultural criticism . . . Rich, accessible and important.
-Peter McLaren, Miami University, Oxford