It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the publication, containing chapters by me, of 2 collective critical books that have gone through an astoundingly rigorous re-editing process over the past 2 years (in both cases) and are both now in the world and available. For anyone working at a University, please consider asking your libraries to carry these.
The Borders Between and Within: Writing America with No Bounds,
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Pin-chia Feng (Eds.)
available at LitVerlag: https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91576-4/
in which my chapter: Under
Flag: Language and (Unattainable) Homogenization in the Era of Postnational
Citizenship appears. I focus on the legacy of the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as it dialogues with the practices and reflections in the works of Myung Mi Kim and Craig Santos Perez.
You can order copies directly from the press. Reviewers are definitely welcome to contact the press for copies and certainly Nicoleta and Pin-Chia would be happy, as would any of us in the volume, to participate in any interviews.
The second book which is NOW OUT is
Vulnérabilité et radicalité: Écritures de soi britanniques et américaines contemporaines
edited by Nelly Monk et Aude Haffen.
Les Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, France.
In which my chapter: “The Nonsingular Self: A study of Bhanu Kapil
and Eleni Sikelianos’ Poetic Autobiographical Writing” (pp97-116) appears. This chapter explores indirect notions of autobiographical and poetic documentary writing, from the positions of fluid selves, avatars and alter egos, to selves that overlap others' histories and linguistic practice. These poets do not practice an "I" focused writing of the self but overlap with that multiplicity which makes up all of us, which I try to study also in terms of what that means to socio-political structures. Although I cite from numerous works in both cases, I primarily focus on Kapil's Incubation and on Sikelianos' The Book of Jon, citing other poet-critics' works, such as those of Lyn Hejinian, Laynie Browne, Lisa Samuels, Lisa Robertson and Susan Howe, or theorists such as Donna Haraway, Tiziana Terranoa and Michel de Pracontal.
It is always such an amazing pleasure to see critical work appear in volumes that have been curated so carefully and intensely edited. My work and reflections were bettered, and deepened, thanks to Nelly Monk, Aude Haffen, Pin-Chia Feng and Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni's intense readings, comments and queries, as well as the feedback and the demands made on me by the anonymous scientific panel readers of this work.
I am grateful to get to be part of such wonderful books, and hope that you will consider reading, teaching and writing back to us about your experiences with these books!
