Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary'

Product Description
What grows
out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory.
About the Author
Joel Kuortti, PhD (1998), University of Tampere, Finland, is Professor of English literature at the University of Turku. He has published widely on Indian and South Asian literature, including several books and edited volumes on Salman Rushdie and Indian women writers.

Kaisa Ilmonen, PhD (2012), University of Turku, Finland, is Senior Research Fellow at that university. She has published widely on postcolonial and queer studies, and is the author of
Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff: Intersectionality and Sexual Modernity (2017).

Janne Korkka, PhD (2011), University of Turku, Finland, is Senior Lecturer in English at that university. He has published widely on Canadian literature in English, including
Ethical Encounters: Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe (Rodopi, 2013).

Elina Valovirta, PhD (2010), University of Turku, Finland, is Senior Lecturer in English at that university. She has published widely on Caribbean literature and women's writing, including
Sexual Feelings: Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women’s Writing through Affect (Rodopi, 2014).