Le touriste, l’émotion et la mémoire douloureuse

Abstract

Nowadays, places linked to painful memories are among the most favourite visiting spots in a world of globalized tourism. This paper deals with the experimental and emotional setups which organize the visits of such places. It endeavours to scrutinize the various scenographies and paths laid out for the tourists' use. Il also deals with the expression of emotions by the latter as well as their appropriateness to the places visited. Thus, the emotions can be construed as a spatialized agent of memory, based upon the confrontation with and the discovery of the places of painful memories. As such, they do reveal in the same space-time framework the tension between the expectations of collective experiences to be built and to be commemorated.

Keywords

• painful memories
• Shoah/Holocaust
• tourism
• emotions
• experience/experiment