The Works of Elena Ferrante

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