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001 2005006028
003 DLC
005 20070418155453.0
008 050301s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005006028
020 $a0415351944 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9780415351942 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a0203698649 (e-book)
020 $a9780203698648 (e-book)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm58456124
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050 00 $aPS159.O28$bL96 2006
082 00 $a810.9/3295$222
100 1 $aLyons, Paul.
245 10 $aAmerican Pacificism :$bOceania in the U.S. imagination /$cPaul Lyons.
260 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c2006.
300 $axii, 271 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aOceania$xIn literature.
651 0 $aOceania$xForeign public opinion, American.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations$zOceania.
651 0 $aOceania$xRelations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aPacific Area$xIn literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006028.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/2005006028-d.html