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.