A collection of essays situating twentieth-century American literature in a global frame. This volume reads US literature through the a range of critical lenses, including critical race and indigenous studies, disability and care studies, environmental criticism, gender analysis, and media studies.

IntroductionLeslie Bow and Russ Castronovo: Structures 1: Elizabeth Freeman: The Book of Love is Long and Boring: Reading Aloud, Care Work, and Children's Literature 2: John Levi Barnard: Colonization to Climate Change: American Literature and a Planet on Fire 3: Simon van Schalkwyk: Nuclear poetry: cultural containment and translational leakage in Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead 4: Joseph Entin: Precarious Forms: Reading Labor in and Beyond the Neoliberal Novel 5: Cynthia Wu: Asian Americans in the Novel of Late Capitalism: Samuel R. Delany's The Mad Man and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians Movements 6: Sean Teuton: The Hidden Voice: Indigenous Experience and Authenticity in Twentieth-Century American Literature 7: Lisa Hollenbach: 'Jumpin' with Symphony Sid': Post-1945 American Literature and Radio 8: Mark Goble: Faulkner at the Speed of History 9: Yogita Goyal: Twentieth-Century Western Man of Color: Richard Wright, Race, and Rootlessness 10: Harilaos Stecopoulos: 'Warm with Tipsy Embraces': Allen Ginsberg, the US-China Writers' Conferences, and the Propagation of Poetry Attachments 11: Kendall Johnson: The Last Puritan in Shanghai: The Faded Romance of China Trade Finance and the Queerly Transnational Melancholy of Emily Hahn's Wartime Opium Smoking 12: Rachel Adams: Modernism's Cares: Reading For and With 13: Aida Levy-Hussen: Black Literary History and the Problem of Identification in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo 14: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus: Andrea Lee's Europe: Race, Interracial Desire, and Transnationalism 15: Bernadine Hernández: Where Border Meets Narrative, Where Body Meets Word: The Animality of Border Subjectivity Imaginaries 16: Becca Gercken: Of Canons and Cabinets: Indigenous Bodies, Epistemological Spectacle, and an Unusual Indian in the Cupboard 17: Johannes Voelz: The Liberal Imagination Revisited: Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and the Crisis of Democracy 18: Heidi Kim: Constructing Whiteness: Faulkner, Ferber, and the American Racial Imagination 19: Rachel Jane Carroll: Portrait of Adrian Piper as Art Object: Conceptualism, Interpretation, and Black Radicalism 20: Michael Rothberg: Cultural Memory Studies and the Beloved Paradigm: From Rememory to Abolition in the Afterlives of Slavery

Leslie Bow is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of the award-winning, 'Partly Colored': Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (2010); Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (2001); and Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (2022). Russ Castronovo is the Tom Paine Professor of English at the University of of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held positions as Director of the American Studies Program, English Department Chair, and Director of the Center for the Humanities. Castronovo has published widely on American aesthetics, literature, and politics on topics such as democracy, propaganda, nationalism, citizenship, and security. His books include Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America (2014), Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (2007), Necro-Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2001), and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (1995).

Situates US literature in a global frame Looks to unsettle and disrupt the field, especially with its focus on race, ethnicity, and critiques of neoliberalism Chapters written by distinguished scholars of American literature from major world universities as well as scholars writing from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa