Thinking with the familiar in contemporary literature and culture 'out of the ordinary' /

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

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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
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.
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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.

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