Table of contents for American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / Paul Lyons.

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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: x.
INTRODUCTION: Bound-Together Stories, Varieties of Ignorance, 
 and the Challenge of Hospitality 1.
CHAPTER ONE: Where "Cannibalism" Has Been, Tourism Will Be:
		 Forms and Functions of American Pacificism 
43.
CHAPTER TWO: 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 93.
CHAPTER THREE: Lines of Fright: Fear, Perception, Performance,
 and the "Seen" of Cannibalism in Charles Wilkes'
 Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee 144.
CHAPTER FOUR: A Poetics of Relation: Friendships Between
 Oceanians and Americans in the Literature of Encounter 
192.
CHAPTER FIVE: From Man-Eaters to Spam-Eaters: Cannibal Tours,
 Lotus-Eaters, and the (anti)Development of Early
 Twentiety-Century Imaginings of Oceania 242.
CHAPTER SIX: Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War Terms:
 A. Grove Day, James Michener, and Histouricism 297.
CONCLUSION: Changing Pre-Scriptions: Varieties of Antitourism
 in the Contemporary Literatures of Oceania 347.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 392.

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

American literature -- History and criticism.
Oceania -- In literature.
Oceania -- Foreign public opinion, American.
United States -- Relations -- Oceania.
Oceania -- Relations -- United States.
Pacific Area -- In literature.
American -- Oceania.