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Offering an important new theoretical way of understanding American literature and culture, Brian Russell Roberts suggests how 'archipelagic thinking' can induce us to reconceive American literary culture as something other than a land-locked affair. Borderwaters should resonate widely among Americanists across a broad range of disciplinary fields and is certain to be widely influential. -- Paul Giles, author of * Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture * Brian Russell Roberts's astonishing new paradigm recasts the United States as a nation of islands and oceans, engaging Benoit Mandelbrot (among others) to elucidate the archipelagic fractals of the Pacific and the Caribbean. From Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God to Florence Frisbie's Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka to the visual arts by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, this detail-rich study is eye-opening in every way. Essential reading for all Americanists. -- Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University

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Brian Russell Roberts is Professor of English at Brigham Young University, coeditor of Archipelagic American Studies and Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference, both also published by Duke University Press, and author of Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era.

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