Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental
country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, 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, particularly in the
archipelagoes of the Pacific and the Caribbean. In Borderwaters
Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental national mythologies to
advance an alternative image of the United States as an
archipelagic nation. Drawing on literature, visual art, and other
expressive forms that range from novels by Mark Twain and Zora
Neale Hurston to Indigenous testimonies against nuclear testing and
Miguel Covarrubias's visual representations of Indonesia and the
Caribbean, Roberts remaps both the fundamentals of US geography and
the foundations of how we discuss US culture.
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