American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / Paul Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Paul, author.

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Oceania--In literature.

Oceania.

Oceania--Foreign public opinion, American.

United States--Relations--Oceania.

United States.

Oceania--Relations--United States.

Pacific Area--In literature.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-134-26414-3

0-203-69849-5

1-134-26415-1

1-280-55236-0

0-203-69864-9

9780203698648

OCLC:

476016660