Thinking with the familiar in contemporary literature and culture 'out of the ordinary' / / edited by Joel Kuortti, Kaisa Ilmonen, Elina Valovirta.

• Superior document: Critical Studies; volume39
• VerfasserIn: Kuortti, Joel,; Ilmonen, Kaisa,; Valovirta, Elina,
• TeilnehmendeR: Kuortti, Joel,; Ilmonen, Kaisa,; Valovirta, Elina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies; volume39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword: Exotic/Ordinary -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- The Potential of the Ordinary: Out of the Ordinary /
• ISBN: 9004406743
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Joel Kuortti, Kaisa Ilmonen, Elina Valovirta.

What grows out of the ordinary ? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary, self-evident and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena such as diasporic cuisine, pet adoption narratives, Prairie writing, romance between stepsiblings, the program of a political party, and everyday shopping in poetry. The book argues that by engaging with that which is perceived as ordinary we also gain understanding of how otherness becomes defined and constituted. The volume seeks new ways to access that which might lie in-between or beyond the opposition between exploitation and emancipation, and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory to create new ways of knowing which grow out of the ordinary.