Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stiebel, Lindy

Titel

Going on (literary) pilgrimage: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY TRAILS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO KWAZULU-NATAL

Ist Teil von

• Scrutiny 2, 2007-05, Vol.12 (1), p.93-106

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Literary tourism, of which the literary trail is an integral part, is a relatively new phenomenon. As South Africa's tourism market grows, new avenues of interest have emerged, and literary tourism has become a potential growth area. This article draws from the experience of the Literary Tourism in KwaZulu-Natal research project, operational over the past five years, and it explores the phenomenon of the literary trail. The article seeks, first, to understand the literary trail historically as a kind of secular pilgrimage to visit sites associated with writers and imagined spaces. Second, it looks at the development of the first literary trails within the research project: the reasons for the choice of writers or areas, the constructed nature of such trails, and their potential to create awareness of writers in KwaZulu-Natal.