The project investigates the imagination of space in US literature in the period of imperialist expansion to the Pacific and the Caribbean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores discursive literary spatialization processes and the role literature has played in the emergence, distribution, performance, and (de)stabilization of spatial imaginations and spatial formats. It also focuses on literature’s function as a tool of ideological critique and as a producer of alternative spatial imaginations.