Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis
The study discusses experiences of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade symbolically represented in Ghana by the Cape Coast Castle. It considers the themes of emotions, transcendence, differentiated voices, and resistances characterised tourists’ experiences of heritage tourism in Ghana. There is already...
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| description | The study discusses experiences of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade symbolically represented in Ghana by the Cape Coast Castle. It considers the themes of emotions, transcendence, differentiated voices, and resistances
characterised tourists’ experiences of heritage tourism in Ghana. There is already a small but growing literature
on heritage tourism in Ghana. But this literature focuses on econometric insights and little consider the emotions
and transcendence, differentiated voices and resistances involved in such heritage tourism. This present study then
adopts a novel approach of poetic analysis, by employing research and interpretative poems to analyse the
transcribed data. It involved observation and in-depth interviews of 50 informants selected through accidental
sampling procedure. The study revealed that the deployment of poetry provides a conduit to express complex, heteroglossic forms of reality that move beyond the conventional methodologies common in tourism research. As such, it has contributed to both local and international theories on heritage tourism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5fdaac98547247a69186dbdf6eab4ee62022-12-22T01:37:10ZengAfricaJournalsAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure2223-814X2020-05-0193149166https://doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720-10Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic AnalysisGabriel Eshun0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-0492Victor Selorme Gedzi1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-6385Tourism Programme, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana & School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of JohannesburgReligious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, GhanaThe study discusses experiences of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade symbolically represented in Ghana by the Cape Coast Castle. It considers the themes of emotions, transcendence, differentiated voices, and resistances characterised tourists’ experiences of heritage tourism in Ghana. There is already a small but growing literature on heritage tourism in Ghana. But this literature focuses on econometric insights and little consider the emotions and transcendence, differentiated voices and resistances involved in such heritage tourism. This present study then adopts a novel approach of poetic analysis, by employing research and interpretative poems to analyse the transcribed data. It involved observation and in-depth interviews of 50 informants selected through accidental sampling procedure. The study revealed that the deployment of poetry provides a conduit to express complex, heteroglossic forms of reality that move beyond the conventional methodologies common in tourism research. As such, it has contributed to both local and international theories on heritage tourism.https://www.ajhtl.com/uploads/7/1/6/3/7163688/article_10_9_3_149-166-1.pdfemotionstranscendencedifferentiated voicesheritage tourismpoetic analysiscape coast castle |
| spellingShingle | Gabriel Eshun Victor Selorme Gedzi Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure emotions transcendence differentiated voices heritage tourism poetic analysis cape coast castle |
| title | Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis |
| title_full | Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis |
| title_short | Emotions, Transcendence, Differentiated Voices and Resistances at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana: Poetic Analysis |
| title_sort | emotions transcendence differentiated voices and resistances at cape coast castle in ghana poetic analysis |
| topic | emotions transcendence differentiated voices heritage tourism poetic analysis cape coast castle |
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