Overview
- The first collection of its kind to bring together critical essays on Elena Ferrante's writings
- Provides original research exploring a range of topics including women's relationships, gender, motherhood, and feminist theory
- Offers a multi-faceted approach to Ferrante's oeuvre through literary, cultural, and psychoanalytic approaches.
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Notes in the Margins: Historicizing Ferrante’s Fiction
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‘All That’s Left in the Margins’: Ferrante’s Poetics
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Smarginatura: Motherhood and Female Friendship
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Grace Russo Bullaro is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in English at the City University of New York, Lehman College, USA. She is the author of Beyond Life is Beautiful: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni; Man in Disorder: The Cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s; From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Italian Cinema; and Shifting and Shaping a National Identity: Transnational Writers and Pluriculturalism in Italy Today.
Stephanie V. Love is a Ph.D. student in Linguistic Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA. She has published articles in Current Issues in Language Planning, the International Journal of Multicultural Education, and Shifting and Shaping a National Identity, edited by Grace Russo Bullaro and Elena Benelli.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Works of Elena Ferrante
Book Subtitle: Reconfiguring the Margins
Editors: Grace Russo Bullaro, Stephanie V. Love
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57580-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59062-6Published: 22 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95868-9Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57580-7Published: 22 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 328
Topics: European Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, European Culture