Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. INTRODUCTION. Imagining North America 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. Before the Border: Indigenous Geographies of North America 29
7. CHAPTER TWO. Fugitive Geographies: Rerouting the Stories of North American Slavery 61
8. CHAPTER THREE. Women of the South Bank: The Mexican Routes of American Modernism 101
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Jack Kerouac’s North America 149
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Continental Ops: Crossing Borders in North American Crime Narrative 189
11. CHAPTER SIX. The Northern Borderlands and Latino / a Canadian Diaspora 219
12. EPILOGUE. The Nafta Superhighway and the Limits of North American Community 241
13. NOTES 249
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 277
15. INDEX 297