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This Study Provides A Provocative Analysis And Critique Of American Representations Of Oceania And Oceanians, From The Nineteenth Century To The Present. Arguing That Imperial Fantasies Have Glossed Over A Complex, Violent History, Paul Lyons Develops The Concept Of American Pacificism. This Theoretical Framework Draws On Contemporary Theories Of Friendship, Hospitality, And Tourism To Refigure Established Debates Around Orientalism For An Oceanian Context.--jacket. 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. Paul Lyons. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-256) And Index.