Elena Ferrante as World Literature

Stiliana Milkova Rousseva, Stiliana Milkova

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781501371912
• eBook ISBN: 9781501357534
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Italian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

"A model of academic praxis." - Public Books Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante constructs a theory of feminine experience which serves as the scaffolding for her own literary practice. Drawing on the writer's entire textual corpus to date, Stiliana Milkova examines the linguistic, psychical, and corporeal-spatial realities that constitute the female subjects Ferrante has theorized. At stake in Ferrante's theory/practice is the articulation of a feminine subjectivity that emerges from the structures of patriarchal oppression and that resists, bypasses, or subverts these very structures. Milkova's inquiry proceeds from Ferrante's theory of frantumaglia and smarginatura to explore mechanisms for controlling and containing the female body and mind, forms of female authorship and creativity, and corporeal negotiations of urban topography and patriarchal space. Elena Ferrante as World Literature sets forth an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Ferrante's texts and offers an account of her literary and cultural significance today.

Index

abjection here, here, here, here, here, here

Kristevan here, here

of maternal body here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

maternal legacy renunciation here

Abramovic, Marina here, here

Accabadora (Murgia) here

agora, significance of here, here

agoraphobia and smarginatura here–here, here, here

Agus, Milena here

Alcott, Louisa May here, here, here

Aleramo, Sibilla here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Alfano, Barbara here

Almost Moon, The (Sebold) here–here

Alsop, Elizabeth here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Altman, Nathan here–here

“Andalusian Shawl, The” (“Lo scialle andaluso”) (Morante) here

Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) here, here

Appadurai, Arjun here, here, here

Apter, Emily here, here

Aracoeli (Morante) here–here, here

Ariadne, significance of here–here

as abandoned woman here, here

urban feminine topographies and here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here

Artemisia (Banti) here

Arturo’s Island (Morante) here

Atwood, Margaret here

authorial power here, here, here, here

absence of here

agency and here

effacement and here

intent and here

world literature and here, here, here, here

Bachelard, Gaston here–here

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology of Elena Ferrante’s Works and Abbreviations Used
• Introduction: Elena Ferrante, World Literature, and the Work of Literary Translation
• 2 Frantumaglia and Smarginatura : The Borders of a Universal Feminine Imaginary
• 3 Binding and Unbinding the Maternal Body and Voice
• 4 Outside the Frame: The Aesthetics of Female Creativity and Authorship
• 5 Mapping Urban Feminine Topographies
• Epilogue: Reverse Maps, Familial Objects, and Open Frames in The Lying Life of Adults
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
• Copyright