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New York ; London : Routledge, 2006

1 online resource (xii, 271 p.)

ISBN 0203698649 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780203698648 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0415351944 (hardback : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780415351942 (hardback : alk. paper)

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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