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Literary Theory & CriticismNilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius,Folds, Cities, and Related AporiasLisa Robertson • BookThugNilling is a sequence of six loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the Codex, Mmelancholy,Lucretius, folds, cities, and related aporias. In short, these are essays on reading.Lisa Robertson lives in France. Her most recent books of poetry are Magenta Soul Whip, which wasselected by the New York Times as one of the 100 best books of 2010, and R’s Boat, shortlisted for TheBeliever’s 2011 Poetry Award. In 2006, BookThug published The Men: a Lyric Book.Key words: Literary studies, Visual art & traditions, Women’s literary traditions, Urbanization,Reading & writing, TextualityISBN-13: 9781897388891paperback / 96 pp6 x 9 / $18.00April 2012What’s a Black Critic to Do, Volume IIDonna Bailey Nurse • Insomniac PressIn What’s a Black Critic to Do, Volume II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers togetherall-new profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism throughthe lens of literature. Contributors include Lawrence Hill, Afra Cooper, Christopher Paul Curtis, NatashaTretheway, Toni Morrison, Dand Chariandy, Joseph Boyden, and Kwame Dawes.ISBN-13: 9781554830299paperback / 388 pp6 x 9 / $19.95October 2011Donna Bailey Nurse is a literary journalist who specializes in the work of Black Canadian writers andartists. Her articles exploring race, books, and culture have appeared in national publications, includingthe Globe and Mail, National Post,Toronto Star, and the Ottawa Citizen. She is a contributor to the LiteraryReview of Canada, and is an occasional interviewer and critic for the Toronto Public Library, CBC Radio,and CBC.ca. Donna is the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing and teaches artsjournalism at George Brown College in Toronto.Key words: African-Canadian writers, Race, Gender, MulticulturalismIn Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian WritingRoy Miki • Edited by Smaro KambourelliNeWest PressThe politics of difference, mired in the violence of colonial history, are a dominant force in the socioeconomicdevelopment of contemporary society as it strikes a balance between the acceptance of newcultures, and the absorption and gentrification of them. In this collection of essays edited by theUniversity of Guelph’s Smaro Kambourelli, Roy Miki—poet, scholar, and member of the Order ofCanada—investigates the shifting currents of citizenship, globalization, and cultural practices facingAsian-Canadians today through the connections of place and identity that have been forged throughour developing national literature.ISBN-13: 9781897126936paperback / 310 pp5.75 x 9 / $24.95September 2011Roy Miki is a writer, poet, and editor who lives in Vancouver. He is the author of several books,including Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice, Broken Entries: Race Subjectivity Writing,and There. His book Surrender received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. He received the Orderof Canada in 2006 and the Order of British Columbia in 2009.Key words: Asian-Canadian identities, Diaspora, Postcolonism, Literary studies, Politics of difference34 Literary Press Group / Congress 2013