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Author:
Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca.
Title:
Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest / Rebecca Weaver-Hightower.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
xxix, 277 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Islands in literature
English fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.
Castaways in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Cannibalism in literature.
Pirates in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265) and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
0816648638 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816648634 (pb : alk. paper)
081664862X (hc : alk. paper)
9780816648627 (hc : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)72149973
LCCN:
2006100756
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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