Anna Brickhouse teaches English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her books include Earthquake and the Invention of America (Oxford 2024), supported by a Guggenheim, The Unsettlement of America (Oxford 2014), awarded the MLA's Lowell prize, and Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge 2004). Susan Gillman teaches in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books, published by the University of Chicago Press include Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America (1989), Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (2003), honored by the MLA, and American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race (2022).

• 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.

Anna Brickhouse teaches English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her books include Earthquake and the Invention of America (Oxford 2024), supported by a Guggenheim, The Unsettlement of America (Oxford 2014), awarded the MLA's Lowell prize, and Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge 2004). Susan Gillman teaches in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books, published by the University of Chicago Press include Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America (1989), Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (2003), honored by the MLA, and American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race (2022).

• 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.

Anna Brickhouse teaches English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her books include Earthquake and the Invention of America (Oxford 2024), supported by a Guggenheim, The Unsettlement of America (Oxford 2014), awarded the MLA's Lowell prize, and Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge 2004). Susan Gillman teaches in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books, published by the University of Chicago Press include Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America (1989), Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (2003), honored by the MLA, and American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race (2022).

• 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.