In Interimperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the coemergence of empires institutions language regimes stratified economies and literary cultures over the longue dure. Weaving together feminist decolonial and dialectical theory she shows how interimperial competition has generated a systemic stratification of gendered racialized labor while literary and other arts have helped both to constitute and to challenge this world order. To study literature is therefore Doyle argues to attend to worldhistorical processes of imaginative and material coformation as they have unfolded through successive eras of vying empires. It is also to understand oral performed and written literatures as powertransforming resources for the present and future. To make this case Doyle analyzes imperialeconomic processes across centuries and continents in tandem with interimperially entangled literatures from A Thousand and One Nights to recent Caribbean fiction. Her trenchant interdisciplinary method reveals the structural centrality of imaginative literature in the politics and possibilities of earthly life.