Abstract
Preface 1. American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism,Transnationalism, Surrealism 2. Parallax Zones: Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism Planetary Perspectives: Crevecoeur's New Holland Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard 3. Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style Joel Barlow: Columbiad Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography 4. Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern Cross Hidden Antipodes: Irving's Globular Narratives Southern Sea: Dana and Poe Ex Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper 5. Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny The Other Side of the Sphere: Melville and Australasia Rotating the Axis: Gold Rush Circuit The Earth reversed her Hemispheres: Dickinson's Antipodality 6. Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and Southworth Spatio-Temporal Triangulation: Henry Adams Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels 7. Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly Racialism and Socialism: Jack London Primitivist Paradox: Federation's weird country 8. Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde The Twinness of Things: Stead's Surrealist Dialectic 9. Pacific Theaters: Poetry of Violence, from World War II to Vietnam Karl Shapiro's backward crab Louis Simpson: Racial Metissage and Southern Pastoral New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation America rhymes with Australia: Yusef Komunyakaa 10. Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey Transposabilities: Posthumanist Spectrum J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita Notes Works Cited
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