LEADER 03721oam 2200709I 450 001 9910815432703321 005 20240410123116.0 010 $a1-134-26414-3 010 $a0-203-69849-5 010 $a1-134-26415-1 010 $a1-280-55236-0 010 $a0-203-69864-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203698648 035 $a(CKB)1000000000359740 035 $a(EBL)273680 035 $a(OCoLC)476016660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102299 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125253 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102299 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10049664 035 $a(PQKB)11699751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC273680 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL273680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10164330 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL55236 035 $a(OCoLC)935261359 035 $a(OCoLC)77121068 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000359740 100 $a20180331d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican Pacificism $eOceania in the U.S. imagination /$fPaul Lyons 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York ;$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-64579-4 311 $a0-415-35194-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index. 327 $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. 330 $aThis provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of 'American Pacificism', a theoretical framework that draws on contemporary theories of friendship, hospitality and tourism to refigure established debates around 'orientalism' for an Oceanian context. Paul Lyons explores American-Islander relations and traces the ways in which two fundamental conceptions of Oceania have been entwined 410 0$aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aOceania$xIn literature 607 $aOceania$xForeign public opinion, American 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zOceania 607 $aOceania$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aPacific Area$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/3295 700 $aLyons$b Paul.$0833990 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815432703321 996 $aAmerican Pacificism$94060574 997 $aUNINA