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 Wertmuller 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.
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 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