Empire islands
Empire islands: castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
ISBN: 0816648638
DDC: 823.00932
LCC: PR830
Edition: (pb : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265) and index.
Monarchs of all they survey -- Disciplined islands: white fatherhood,
homosocial masculinity, and law -- Voracious cannibals, rapacious
pirates, and threats of counterincorporation -- "Falling to the
lowest degree of brutishness": wild men, monsters, and the bestial
taint -- Island parodies and Crusoe pantomimes: resistance from
within -- The U.S. island fantasy, or cast away with Gilligan.
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