Chapter 1 Introduction: Movement, Space, and Power in the Creative Act

Chapter 2 Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire

Chapter 3 The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chapter 4 Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict and Dislocation Through Ancestral Speakers in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying

Chapter 5 Mobility, Incarceration, and the Politics of Resistance in Palestinian Women’s Literature

Chapter 7 Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives

Chapter 8 Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (1892)

Chapter 9 Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now

Chapter 10 A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman

Chapter 11 Vulnerable Erotic Encounters: A Chronotopic Reading of the Bus-Space in Chicu’s Soliloquy

Chapter 12 Anti-capitalism and the Near Future: In Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God

Chapter 13 Frantz Fanon, Chester Himes, and a “Literature of Combat”

Chapter 14 Resisting a Wilting Society: To Blossom