Engaging with Otherness in Everyday Life: Naomi Shihab Nyeâs De-familiarizing Poems

Lisa Marchi

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Chapter 6 Engaging with Otherness in Everyday Life: Naomi Shihab Nyeâs De-familiarizing Poems

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

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In an interview with Joy Castro, Naomi Shihab Nye suggests that one of the main functions of poetry is to enable a re-vision of the everyday by calling attention to its hidden, neglected, unnoticed aspects. Poetic images coalesce in Nyeâs poetry with quotidian smells, sights and tastes, revealing a quotidian that is most of the time extra-ordinary. In my reading of Nyeâs poetry, I am guided by theories on the everyday, recent works in feminist cultural studies of affect and in political theories. In this chapter, I wish to take into consideration the ethical and political significance of a series of aesthetic strategies that Nye performs in her poetry with the aim to increase the readerâs perception of the everyday as unusual, out of the ordinary, at times enchanting, at other times threatening. What happens, I ask, when the poet blurs the safe boundary separating the familiar from the unfamiliar, the ordinary from the extra-ordinary, and represents the everyday in a completely new guise?

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

Series:Â Critical Studies, Volume: 39Â andÂ Critical Studies, Volume: 39

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004406742

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 13 Sep 2019

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