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American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination /
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.