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| TITLE: |
American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / Paul Lyons. |
| AUTHOR: |
Lyons, Paul. |
| SERIES: |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York ; London : Routledge, 2006. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xii, 271 p. ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index. |
| NOTES: |
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 |
| SUBJECT: |
- 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. |
| SUBJECT: |
American literature--History and criticism. |
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Oceania--In literature. |
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Oceania--Foreign public opinion, American.--United States |
| SUBJECT: |
Relations--Oceania. |
| SUBJECT: |
Relations--United States. |
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