Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation 1
5. 1. Hemispheric Jamestown 18
6. 2. The Hemispheric Genealogies of “Race” 36
7. 3. “La Famosa Filadelfia” 57
8. 4. The Other Country 75
9. 5. An American Mediterranean 96
10. 6. Expropriating The Great South and Exporting “Local Color” 116
11. 7. The Mercurial Space of “Central” America 140
12. 8. “I’m the Everybody Who’s Nobody” 166
13. 9. The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism 187
14. 10. PEN and the Sword 206
15. 11. The Hemispheric Routes of “El Nuevo Arte Nuestro” 223
16. 12. Memín Pinguín, Rumba, and Racism 249
17. 13. “Out of This World” 266
18. 14. Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres 294
19. 15. The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora 313
20. Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies 328
21. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 337
22. INDEX 341