Contemporary Anglophone literature abounds with images. Readers encounter cover images, reproductions of paintings and photographs inserted into the text, ekphrastic descriptions of works of art and documentary photographs, pictorial descriptions of landscapes evoca- tive of certain paintings and/or painting styles and “Schriftbildlichkeit” (Krämer/Cancik-Kirschbaum/Totzke 2012), i.e. typographical experi- ments that produce iconic forms with the help of the text’s materiality. The postcolonial and transcultural texts discussed in this study are entangled with multiple forms and material realizations of images and thrive through their interaction with them. This intermedial aesthet- ics brings literature into a productive relationship with images, giving rise to a reflexive negotiation of materiality.