ABSTRACT
While the world-content of transnationalism remains frequently connected to the nation that it intends to unthink, worlding avoids an ethos of remapping and againstness. Instead, it rather traces relations and conditions of becoming, i.e., the entanglements and connectivity between human and object, producer and produce, use and perception in everyday life. A worlding approach addresses multiple entanglements and modes of co-agency—persons, texts, and things. The chapter discusses worlding as an open activity inviting redescriptions whenever different texts, persons, and things are examined together. Accordingly, “American” literature is not only a product of confluences in the global network of cultural and literary circulation but also a node in it from which these transnational connections can be reconstructed.
