Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Rethinking Imperialism Today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller 1
Part 1: Technologies of Imperialism
Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization / John Carlos Rowe 37
Between the Homeland and Abu Ghraib: Dwelling in Bush’s Biopolitical Settlement / Donald E. Pease 60
Planet America: The Revolution in Military Affairs as Fantasy and Fetish / Christian Parenti 88
Hegemony and Rights: On the Liberal Justification for Empire / Omar Dahbour 105
Part 2: Engendering Imperialism
Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women of Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe 133
Techno-Dominance and Torturegate: The Making of US Imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller 162
Part 3: Imagining Others
Left Behind and the Politics of Prophecy Talk / Melani McAlister 191
Putting an Old Africa on Our Map: British Imperial Legacies and Contemporary US Culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos 221
New Modes of Anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson 248
Coda: Information Mastery and the Culture of Annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller 275
Bibliography 285
Contributors 301
Index 303

Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. He is author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain.

Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890 and The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism From Franklin to Kingston and a coeditor of Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies.