Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation -- Chapter 1: Hemispheric Jamestown -- Chapter 2: The Hemispheric Genealogies of "Race": Creolization and the Cultural Geography of Colonial Difference across the Eighteenth-Century Americas -- Chapter 3: "La Famosa Filadelfia": The Hemispheric American City and Constitutional Debates -- Chapter 4: The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest -- Chapter 5: An American Mediterranean: Haiti, Cuba, and the American South -- Chapter 6: Expropriating The Great South and Exporting "Local Color": Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction -- Chapter 7: The Mercurial Space of "Central" America: New Orleans, Honduras, and the Writing of the Banana Republic -- Chapter 8: "I'm the Everybody Who's Nobody": Genealogies of the New World Slave in Paul Robeson's Performances of the 1930s -- Chapter 9: The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito -- Chapter 10: PEN and the Sword: U.S.-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress -- Chapter 11: The Hemispheric Routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro": The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War -- Chapter 12: Memín Pinguín, Rumba, and Racism Afro-Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film -- Chapter 13: "Out of This World": Islamic Irruptions in the Literary Americas -- Chapter 14: Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres: Navigating Karen Tei Yamashita's Literary World -- Chapter 15: The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora -- Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.