Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest / Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
- Bib ID:
- 3960445
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007
- xxix, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780816648627
- 081664862X
- 9780816648634
- 0816648638
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265) and index.
- Subject:
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- 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
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- 2007
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