Table of Contents:
  • Global and Babel : language and planet in American literature / Jonathan Arac
  • The deterritorialization of American literature / Paul Giles
  • Unthinking manifest destiny : Muslim modernities on three continents / Susan Stanford Friedman
  • Mr. Styron's planet / Eric Sundquist
  • Planetary Circles : Philip Roth, Emerson, Kindera / Ross Posnock
  • World Bank drama / Joseph Roach
  • Global minoritarian culture / Homi Bhabha
  • Atlantic to Pacific: James, Todorov, Blackmur, and intercontinental forms / David Palumbo-Liu
  • Ecoglobalist affects : U.S. environmental imagination on a planetary scale / Lawrence Buell
  • At the borders of American crime fiction / Rachel Adams
  • African, Caribbean, American : Black English as Creole tongue / Wai Chee Dimock.