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1 online resource (xii, 271 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-256) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Oceania -- In literature.
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Oceania. |
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Oceania Region. |
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Oceania -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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United States -- Relations -- Oceania.
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United States. |
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Relations. |
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Oceania -- Relations -- United States.
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Pacific Area -- In literature.
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Pacific Area. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lyons, Paul. American Pacificism. New York ; London : Routledge, 2006 0415351944 (DLC) 2005006028 (OCoLC)58456124 |
ISBN |
0203698649 (electronic book) |
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9780203698648 (electronic book) |
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0203698495 (electronic book) |
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9780203698495 (electronic book) |
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0415351944 (Cloth) |
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9780415351942 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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