The Cambridge companion to American literature and empire / edited by Anna Brickhouse, Susan Gillman.

Other author Brickhouse, Anna
Other author Gillman, Susan Kay
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesCambridge companions to literature
Contents American literary studies as empire studies / Anna Brickhouse, Susan Gillman Against imperial nature : Hérard-Dumesle and the making of Haitian revolutionary eloquence / Monique Allewaert Apocalypse and Native American literature : From Samson Occom to the contemporary moment / Stephanie Fitzgerald, Hilary Wyss Conquest and compost : James Fenimore Cooper and the literature of ecological empire / Gesa Mackenthun Manifestly queer domesticity : Empire and nineteenth-century queer fiction / Rafael Walker Herman, or The Ambiguities : Melville, US imperialism, and the participant critic / Emilio Irigoyen -- Cultures of US torture : Entertainment and clandestine spectacle / Rodrigo Lazo -- The Du Bois genealogy : Three worlds and three writers on Black anti-imperialism / Alex Lubin -- Harry Dean Foster and the project of Black maritime empire / Nadia Nurhussein -- Elusive "sun-bright hardness" : The Caribbean horizons of Black Renaissance fiction in an age of rising U.S. empire / Jak Peake -- What we know that we don't know : Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, and Ocean Vuong on US empire and desire / Meg Wesling -- Transpacific entanglements : Korean immigrant writers and militarized modernity in American literature / Jeehyun Lim -- Undocutime : Containment, coloniality, and childhood in Solito / Catherine S. Ramírez -- Speculative fiction as anti-colonial theory : Indigenous and Latinx film and literature / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.
Abstract "This volume is for students, teachers, and general readers who want to understand the complex relationship between American literature and empire. The volume traverses five centuries of literary and imperial history to offer an interdisciplinary, hemispheric, and global account of American literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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