A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinities between Australian and American literature. Locating US colonial legacies as well as US imperialism within a heterogeneous set of power relations that destabilizes one-dimensional conceptions of transpacific and transatlantic exchange, Antipodean America highlights the Pacific and specifically Australia as rich fields of multidirectional reciprocity that have been deeply impactful on US literary and cultural development.