The Works of Elena Ferrante Reconfiguring the Margins [Hardcover]

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.

Table of Contents

 

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 Ferrantes fiction

 

The era of the economic miracle and the force of context in Ferrantes My Brilliant Friend

Grace Russo Bullaro

 

Indexicalities of Language in Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels: Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference

Jillian Cavanaugh

 

An educated identity: The school as a modernist chronotope in Ferrantes Neapolitan Novellc0