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American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination
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- Creator
- Paul Lyons
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York ; London : Routledge, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780203698495, 9781280552366, 0415645794, 9780415351942, 0203698649, 9781134264155, 0415351944, 1134264143, 1134264151, 1280552360, 9781134264148, 9780203698648, 0203698495
- OCLC
- ocn935261359, ocn476016660, ocm58456124, ocm77121068
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-256) and index.
- Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality -- Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism -- Opening accounts in the South Seas : Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, James Fenimore Cooper's The crater, and the antebellum development of American Pacificism -- Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter -- From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania -- Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms : A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism -- Conclusion : changing pre-scriptions : varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania