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

• Autore: Lyons Paul
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3295
• Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Oceania In literature; Oceania Foreign public opinion, American; United States Relations Oceania; Oceania Relations United States; Pacific Area In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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
• Titolo autorizzato: American Pacificism
• ISBN: 1-134-26414-3; 0-203-69849-5; 1-134-26415-1; 1-280-55236-0; 0-203-69864-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784429603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.