Format:
XII, 271 S
ISBN:
0415351944
,
9780415351942
Series Statement:
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures 13
Note:
Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitalityWhere "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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Ozeanien
;
Literatur
;
Ozeanien
;
USA
;
Kulturkontakt
;
USA
;
Literatur
;
Ozeanien
