American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Introduction: Bound-Together Stories, Varieties of Ignorance, and the Challenge of Hospitality 1. Where "Cannibalism" Has Been, Tourism Will Be: Forms and Functions of American Pacificism 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 3. Lines of Fright: Fear, Perception, Performance and the "Seen" of Cannibalism in Charles Wilkes' Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee 4.A Poetics of Relation: Friendships Between Oceanians and Americans in the Literature of Encounter 5. From Man-Eaters to Spam-Eaters: Cannibal Tours, Lotus-Eaters and the (anti)Development of Early Twentieth-Century Imaginings of Oceania 6. 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 Bibliography