Inhalt: | This book is the first dedicated volume of academic analysis on the monumental work of Elena Ferrante, Italy’s most well-known contemporary writer. The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins brings together the most exciting and innovative research on Ferrante’s treatment of the intricacies of women’s lives, relationships, struggles, and dilemmas to explore feminist theory in literature; questions of gender in twentieth-century Italy; and the psychological and material elements of marriage, motherhood, and divorce. Including an interview from Ann Goldstein, this volume goes beyond “Ferrante fever” to reveal the complexity and richness of a remarkable oeuvre Introduction: Beyond the margins -- Beyond the margins: Ferrante fever and Italian female writing, Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love -- Part I: Notes in the margins: historicizing Ferrante’s fiction -- The era of the “economic miracle” and the force of context in Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, Grace Russo Bullaro -- Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels: Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference, Jillian Cavanaugh -- “An educated identity”: The school as a modernist chronotope in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Stephanie V. Love -- Part II: “All that’s left in the margins”: Ferrante’s poetics -- Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend: in search of Parthenope and the “Founding” of a New City, Franco Gallippi -- Performative Realism and Post-humanism in The Days of Abandonment, Enrica Maria Ferrara -- Elena Ferrante’s Visual Poetics: Ekphrasis in Troubling Love, My Brilliant Friend, and The Story of a New Name, Stiliana Milkova -- Part III: Smarginatura: Motherhood and female friendship -- Metamorphosis and Rebirth: Greek Mythology and Initiation Rites in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love, Tiziana de Rogatis -- Maternal Failure and its Bequest: Toxic Attachment in the Neapolitan Novels, Christine Maksimowicz -- Breaking Bonds: Refiguring Maternity in Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, Leslie Elwell -- Telling the Abuse: A Feminist-Psychoanalytic Reading of Gender Violence, Repressed Memory and Female Subjectivity in Elena Ferrante’s Troubling Love, Nicoletta Mandolini -- Dixit Mater: The Significance of the Maternal Voice in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Emma Van Ness -- Interview with Ann Goldstein, Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love -- List of Contributors -- Index |
