Notwithstanding its now extensive transdisciplinary bibliography the full reality of globalization remains less well understood than commonly thought. As an objective secular phenomenon globalization has continued to be obscured by ideological and rhetorical strategies that travel under the same name but posit it as simply the abstractuniversal other of the local. Dislocalism The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism makes such strategies and the globallocal binary they reinforce into objects of critical analysis. ampampnbsp Taking her title from a new theoretical concept at the heart of this critique Sarika Chandra argues that the historically dominant position of the United States in the global order takes on a uniquely urgent and problematic form globalization is experienced not only as external to the American nation of nations but also as something internal to it. Through close study of four discrete intellectualcultural arenas from the 1980s to the presentmanagement theory the literature of immigration travel writing and narratives of the culinary exoticChandra further argues that an Americanized imperative to globalize results in a repositioning of the local to maintain national and institutional boundaries. To dislocalize becomes simultaneously to dislocalize. ampampnbsp By mapping out the deeper often hidden discursive ambiguities and historical specificities of an Americanized globalization Dislocalism effectively redefines and reorients the fields of American literary and cultural studies. ampampnbsp