Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Placing America 9
5. Constructing America from Afar
6. Performing America Abroad 19
7. America, the Threat of Time 39
8. Real Places and Imaginary Spaces
9. Setting the Scene 57
10. Fallujah Manhattan Transfer 75
11. There’s No Place Like Fiction 91
12. The Black Hole at the Heart of America? 103
13. Drawing Borders
14. Meeting at the Border 129
15. ›Romanized Gauls‹ 145
16. Marginalized Cultural Spaces
17. Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon 161
18. Getting a Name 173
19. This Space Called Science: 187
20. Contributors 205
21. Index 209