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Author Lyons, Paul.

Title American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / Paul Lyons.

Publication Info. New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
Bibliography 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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Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Oceania -- In literature.
Oceania.
Oceania Region.
Oceania -- Foreign public opinion, American.
United States -- Relations -- Oceania.
United States.
Relations.
Oceania -- Relations -- United States.
Pacific Area -- In literature.
Pacific Area.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Lyons, Paul. American Pacificism. New York ; London : Routledge, 2006 0415351944 (DLC) 2005006028 (OCoLC)58456124
ISBN 0203698649 (electronic book)
9780203698648 (electronic book)
0203698495 (electronic book)
9780203698495 (electronic book)
0415351944 (Cloth)
9780415351942 (hardback ; alkaline paper)