The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Empire

Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Timeline of texts and events; Introduction: American literary studies as empire studies Anna Brickhouse and Susan Gillman; Part I. Reimagining 'Early American' Literature: 1. Empire and the hemisphere Ralph Bauer; 2. Against imperial nature: Hérard-Dumesle and the making of Haitian revolutionary eloquence Monique Allewaert; 3. Apocalypse and Native American literature: from Samson Occom to the contemporary moment Stephanie Fitzgerald and Hilary Wyss; Part II. Imperial Nation: 4. Conquest and compost: James Fenimore Cooper and the literature of ecological empire Gesa Mackenthun; 5. Manifestly queer domesticity: empire and nineteenth-century queer fiction Rafael Walker; 6. Herman, or the ambiguities: Melville, US imperialism, and the participant critic Emilio Irigoyen; 7. Cultures of US torture: entertainment and clandestine spectacle Rodrigo Lazo; Part III. Ongoing Empire and Speculative Worlds: 8. The Du Bois genealogy: three worlds and three writers on Black anti-imperialism Alex Lubin; 9. Harry Dean Foster and the project of black maritime empire Nadia Nurhussein; 10. Elusive 'sun-bright hardness': the Caribbean horizons of Black renaissance fiction in an age of rising US empire Jak Peake; 11. What we know that we don't know: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, and Ocean Vuong on US empire and desire Meg Wesling; 12. Transpacific entanglements: Korean immigrant writers and militarized modernity in American literature Jeehyun Lim; 13. Undocutime: containment, coloniality, and childhood in Javier Zamora's Solito Catherine S. Ramírez; 14. Speculative fiction as anti-colonial theory: indigenous and Latinx film and literature María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo; Afterword Anna Brickhouse and Susan Gillman; Further reading; Index.