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This new reading of American modernism examines the cartographic literature of the United States and places it in context of the state's overseas expansion. It stretches the map of US literature across an imperial archipelago of territories, bringing canonical American authors into relation with writers who are comparatively under-represented in modernist studies. The book argues that literary artists from across US dominion responded to space-dominating technologies of empire and retooled them to imagine counter-cartographies, designs that challenged the official geographies of the United States.

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Aaron Nyerges is a Senior Lecturer of American Studies at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. His work engages with literature, geography, and the history of media technologies. From 2021-2024 he was Academic Director of the United States Studies Centre and in 2024 he was the Rolf Lessenich Visiting Fellow at the University of Bonn.

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