The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins (Italian and Italian American Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137590629 ISBN 13: 9781137590626

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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 Wertmüller 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1137590629
• ISBN 13: 9781137590626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 341
• Editor: Russo Bullaro Grace, Love Stephanie V.