ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book suggests the ways in which the transnational method continues to offer illuminating new perspectives on modern American literature and culture. By relating American narratives to a broad range of conceptual frameworks, the chapter focuses on to the ongoing work of situating US culture within a wider world. The book emphasises on the "double exposure" brought about by telepathic communication across time as well as space effectively assimilates the transnational within the gothic. It introduces an idea of the uncanny as a "troubling shadow" through which distant realms manifest themselves within forms of hauntology. The book examines how William Faulkner's linguistic and sexual crossing of borders becomes analogous to the author's transnational situating of Absalom, Absalom! in a space between the US South and a misremembered Haiti.
