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" American Pacificism : "
Paul Lyons.
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BL
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950771
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b705141
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Lyons, Paul.
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American Pacificism : : Oceania in the U.S. imagination /\ Paul Lyons.
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New York ;London :: Routledge,, 2006.
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
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1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
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0203698495
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: 0203698649
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: 1134264151
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: 9780203698495
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: 9780203698648
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: 9781134264155
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: 9781280552366
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0415351944
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9780415351942
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-256) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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American literature-- History and criticism.
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American literature.
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International relations.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature.
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Public opinion, American.
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Oceania, Foreign public opinion, American.
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Oceania, In literature.
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Oceania, Relations, United States.
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Pacific Area, In literature.
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United States, Relations, Oceania.
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Oceania.
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Pacific Area.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/3295
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PS159.O28L96 2006eb
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