Stiliana Milkova

Elena Ferrante as World Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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 frantumagliaand 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 Literaturesets forth an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Ferrante's texts and offers an account of her literary and cultural significance today.

Produktdetails

• Literatures as World Literature
• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781501357527
• ISBN-10: 1501357522
• Artikelnr.: 60069920

Autorenporträt

Stiliana Milkovais Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Oberlin College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chronology of Elena Ferrante's Works and Abbreviations 1.
Introduction: Elena Ferrante, World Literature, and the Work of Literary
Translation World Literature and the Creation of Elena Ferrante Ferrante's
Feminine Imaginary Ferrante's Female Genealogies The Translator as
Seamstress: Figures of Translation from the Periphery to the Center Elena
Ferrante as World Literature: An Overview 2. Frantumaglia and Smarginatura
: The Borders of a Universal Feminine Imaginary Incisions and Inscriptions
of the Body The Parameters of Frantumaglia Smarginatura in the Neapolitan
Novels The "Mothers" of Smarginatura Women Who Write 3. Binding and
Unbinding the Maternal Body and Voice Desire and Disgust for the Mother
Conflations and Inversions: Mothers, Daughters, Dolls Enclosing the
Maternal Body: Cellars, Locked Apartments, Clothes Laughing Bodies and
Grotesque Gestures Dead Mothers and Corporeal Flows 4. Outside the Frame:
The Aesthetics of Female Creativity and Authorship Inside the Frame: The
(Nude) Female Body-as-Parts Inside the Frame: Mirrors, Collages, Still
Lifes Outside the Frame: Creating a Female Artistic Legacy The Neapolitan
Novels and Female Friendship, Writing, Authorship 5. Mapping Urban Feminine
Topographies Walking the Streets of Topographic Memory in Troubling Love
Symbolic and Literal Labyrinth in the Neapolitan Novels From Naples to
Turin: Urban Itineraries of Abandonment Epilogue: Reverse Maps, Familial
Objects, and Open Frames in The Lying Life of Adults Notes Works Cited
Index