The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins

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

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