ABSTRACT
This chapter interprets how the codification of certain cultural ideas through literature and literary studies has been a mode of cultural appropriation in the US political space—and poses some inquiries with respect to the limits of literary texts and studies thereof as institutionalized transmitters of cultural value. The cultural annexation of space demonstrated by movement through it allows the space to be presented as a static, undifferentiated and uniform area. The chapter describes that the literary and cultural histories are fictional. Starting with migration to the continent, followed by westward movement across it, the literature promoted by the US political body imagines the space as the perennial native realm of the settlers and their affiliates, often without clarification of the cultural appropriation of the area. The pioneer activities carried out by citizens of the political body reenact the settlement of the area and are part of the cultural appropriation of the region subsequent to the political annexation.
