Archipelagic Thinking and the Borderwaters: A US-Eccentric Vision -- Interlapping Continents and Archipelagoes of American Studies -- Archipelagic Diaspora and Geographic Form -- Borderwaters and Geometries of Being Amid -- Fractal Temporality on Vulnerable Foreshores -- Spiraling Futures of the Archipelagic States of America -- Conclusion: Distant Reading the Archipelagic Gyre: DH Archipelagoes.
Summary:
"Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. But Borderwaters reminds readers that since the late Twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other country in the world. This watery version of the United States borders some twenty-one countries. Thus Borderwaters supplants continental national mythologies, advancing an alternative image of the archipelagic states of America, a redescription growing out of US claims to archipelagoes in the Pacific and Caribbean"-- Provided by publisher.
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