American Pacificism Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality......Page 14
1. Where “cannibalism” has been, tourism will be: Forms and functions of American Pacificism......Page 37
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......Page 61
3. Lines of fright: Fear, perception, performance, and the “seen” of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes’s Narrative and Herman Melville’s Typee......Page 85
4. A poetics of relation: Friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter......Page 110
5. From man-eaters to spam-eaters: Cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania......Page 135
6. Redeeming Hawai‘i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms: A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism......Page 162
Conclusion: Changing pre-scriptions: varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania......Page 189
Notes......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 240
Index......Page 270