American Pacificism
Subtitle: Oceania in the U.S. imagination
By: Paul Lyons.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; American -- Oceania; Oceania -- In literature; Oceania -- Foreign public opinion, American; United States -- Relations -- Oceania; Oceania -- Relations -- United States; Pacific Area -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality; title: Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism; title: 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; title: Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes' Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee; title: A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and Americans in the literature of encounter; title: From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of early twentiety-century imaginings of Oceania; title: Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in cold war terms : A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism; title: Changing pre-scriptions : varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania.