As the definition of foregrounding indicates, these are relative concepts. Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and Affect&colon; Response to Literary Stories. A key feature of the party's electoral strategy has been foregrounding community politics. There are two main types of foregrounding&colon; parallelism and deviation. Her art is focused on foregrounding the experiences of Indigenous women. Foster's contention that controlling the means of production is "foregrounding subjectivity", is limited. Foregrounding, for Hasan, is contrast with respect to the norms of the text.