Thinking with the familiar in contemporary literature and culture 'out of the ordinary' / / 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 eve...
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Superior document: | Critical Studies; volume39 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Studies;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 pages). |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword: Exotic/Ordinary
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- The Potential of the Ordinary: Out of the Ordinary / Joel Kuortti, Kaisa Ilmonen, Elina Valovirta and Janne Korkka
- Extra/Ordinary Acts
- Caryl Phillips and Ordinariness / John McLeod
- Disposability and Ordinariness in the New Europe of Damjan Kozole’s Spare Parts / Ana Cristina Mendes
- Intersectionalizing the Homogenous Commonplace: Finnish Feminist Party and the Diversification of the Story of Nordic Social Coherence / Kaisa Ilmonen and Leena-Maija Rossi
- Small Things
- “The gopher was the model”: The Secrets of Ordinary Animals in Canadian Prairie Writing / Janne Korkka
- “Lapse of Happily”: Consuming Everyday Banality in American Experimental Poetry / Elina Siltanen
- Engaging with Otherness in Everyday Life: Naomi Shihab Nye’s De-familiarizing Poems / Lisa Marchi
- Home and Family
- The Ordinariness of the Diasporic Kitchen / Joel Kuortti
- No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica / Elina Valovirta
- Adopting Animals: Home and Family in US Rehoming Narratives / Jopi Nyman
- The Ordinary Never Runs out of Steam: Afterword / Elina Valovirta, Kaisa Ilmonen, Joel Kuortti and Janne Korkka
- Back Matter
- Index.