Borderwaters
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Borderwaters

Amid the Archipelagic States of America

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eBook - PDF

Borderwaters

Amid the Archipelagic States of America

About this book

Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other country in the world. This watery version of the United States borders some twenty-one countries, particularly in the archipelagoes of the Pacific and the Caribbean. In Borderwaters Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nation. Drawing on literature, visual art, and other expressive forms that range from novels by Mark Twain and Zora Neale Hurston to Indigenous testimonies against nuclear testing and Miguel Covarrubias's visual representations of Indonesia and the Caribbean, Roberts remaps both the fundamentals of US geography and the foundations of how we discuss US culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction. Archipelagic Thinking and the Borderwaters: A US-Eccentric Vision
  5. Chapter One. Interlapping Continents and Archipelagoes of American Studies
  6. Chapter Two. Archipelagic Diaspora and Geographic Form
  7. Chapter Three. Borderwaters and Geometries of Being Amid
  8. Chapter Four. Fractal Temporality on Vulnerable Foreshores
  9. Chapter Five. Spiraling Futures of the Archipelagic States of America
  10. Conclusion. Distant Reading the Archipelagic Gyre: Digital Humanities Archipelagoes
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index