To interrogate the transnational effects of settler colonialism within works of literature, this thesis examines two case studies: Jovita González and Margaret Eimer’s Mexican-American novel Caballero: A Historical Novel and Vilhelm Moberg’s Swedish-American tetralogy The Emigrants. Employing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework grounded in Transnationalism, Settler Colonialism, and Critical Whiteness Studies, and incorporating close-reading strategies informed by Francisco Robles’ concept of coalitional aesthetics, this inquiry demonstrates how these literary works critique exclusionary discourses of the United States national body and negotiate American settler colonial structures and their enduring racialised hierarchies. The findings indicate that, while influenced by settler colonial ideologies, the primary texts utilise multiperspectival narrative styles characteristic of what Francisco Robles has termed “coalitional aesthetics” to challenge universalised settler myths and discourses concerning land entitlement and white supremacy in North America. By employing multiperspectival narratives and elevating transcultural voices through a coalitional aesthetic, Caballero and The Emigrants enact a transnational literary critique of the intersecting hierarchies that construct U.S. exceptionalism.