Frangello Gina - Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Brilliantly addressing issues such as class struggle female friendship women's autonomy and literary creation itself Ferrante's hyperrealist intense storytelling is a saga of a highly specific place and history yet somehow also transcends them resonating on profoundly personal levels with readers of every background. Gina Frangello grew up in poverty in inner - city Chicago two decades after Ferrante's most famous characters Lenu and Lila grew up in Naples. Despite these geographic and cultural differences Frangello felt that Ferrante was 'writing about my youth my life my relationships my struggles. In the latest volume in the Bookmarked series Gina Frangello contemplates Ferrante's Neapolitan novels through the lens of memoir literary criticism and issues of authorial identity and gender. Should who Ferrante 'is matter? And more importantly what is it about Lenu and Lila's story that taps into such universal truths that makes readers feel that Ferrante is writing specifically to them?
Title: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked
Author(s): Frangello Gina
Publisher: Ig Publishing
Barcode: 9781632461629
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 7/9/2024
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets