ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the beginning scene of Martin Delany's Blake; or the Huts of America, a novel about an escaped slave who prepares a transnational slave rebellion. It shows how people can make the hemispheric approach productive for their study of literature. Border Studies that includes not only the Mexican-American border but other borders and other constellations of national and transnational forces such as the cross-border military expeditions the United States is undertaking in the fight against terrorism and that explores the interrelationships between the US-Mexican border and the Israel/Palestine boundary or the US-Canadian border. Hemispheric Studies enlarge the perspective from the US-Mexican border to the entire American continent. They explore the ways in which the United States has throughout its history been economically, politically, and culturally entangled with other parts of the Americas.
