American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780415645799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Paul Lyons

Opis

This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the 19th century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction: Bound-Together Stories, Varieties of Ignorance, and the Challenge of Hospitality  1. Where "Cannibalism" Has Been, Tourism Will Be: Forms and Functions of American Pacificism  2. 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  3. Lines of Fright: Fear, Perception, Performance and the "Seen" of Cannibalism in Charles Wilkes' Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee  4. A Poetics of Relation: Friendships Between Oceanians and Americans in the Literature of Encounter  5. From Man-Eaters to Spam-Eaters: Cannibal Tours, Lotus-Eaters and the (anti)Development of Early Twentieth-Century Imaginings of Oceania  6. 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  Bibliography

O autorze

Paul Lyons is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawai´i-Manoa. He publishes and reviews regularly on American literature, and is the author of three novels. In 2004 he received the Board of Regents´ Award for Excellence in Teaching.