Tiziana de Rogatis

Katrin Wehling-Giorgi 

This edited volume is the first to propose new readings of Italian and transnational female-authored texts through the lens of Trauma Studies. Illuminating a space that has so far been left in the shadows, Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing provides new insights into how the trope of trauma shapes the narrative, temporal and linguistic dimension of these works. The various contributions delineate a landscape of female-authored Italian and transnational trauma narratives and their complex textual negotiation of suffering and pathos, from the twentieth century to the present day. These zones of trauma engender a new aesthetics and a new reading of history and cultural memory as an articulation of female creativity and resistance against a dominant cultural and social order.

Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing

Parole chiave per orientarsi nel labirinto dell’Amica geniale, di Napoli, di una storia universale sull’affinità e la solitudine dei destini. Attraverso queste parole-chiave si delinea l’immaginario creato da Ferrante: un mondo capace di rendere universale ciò che viene generalmente considerato marginale. È infatti un’amicizia femminile, nata nel degrado di una periferia urbana, tra minorità ed emancipazione, a rendere leggibile il paesaggio storico-sociale della storia europea tra gli anni Cinquanta del Novecento e i primi dieci del nuovo millennio. Il ciclo in quattro volumi dell’Amica geniale di Elena Ferrante è un successo globale e trasversale: più di sette milioni di lettori in tutto il mondo, travolti da un irresistibile piacere della lettura, assediati dal bisogno di divorare la quadrilogia, affascinati da un plot che dà forma alle storie di Elena e Lila, di chi va e di chi resta. Con L’amica geniale, Napoli e l’Italia si propongono come un repertorio di storie della nostra ultramodernità globalizzata. Perché nell’intreccio di locale e globale in cui oggi viviamo, Elena e Lila, due bambine che racchiudono in sé la speranza e l’angoscia del futuro, sono un’equivalenza del destino: nelle nostre vite nomadi e sradicate, chi va è chi resta. Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave si rivolge allo stesso pubblico trasversale e composito a cui hanno parlato le storie dell’Amica geniale. Questo libro è stato pensato come un percorso tematico per parole chiave: segnali luminosi che sintetizzino gli aspetti multiformi della scrittura di Ferrante e ci guidino nel labirinto di questo successo internazionale.

Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave

“Tackles novelist Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet in terms of their ‘creative forms of [female] resistance’ . . . A richly layered study.” —Kirkus Reviews “I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent.” —Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng Huo Zhou Kan Ferrante’s four-volume novel cycle known in English as the Neapolitan quartet has become a global success, with over ten million readers in close to fifty countries. Her readers recount feeling “addicted” to the novels; they describe a pleasure in reading that is as rare as it is irresistible, a compulsion that leads them either to devour the books or to ration them so as to prolong the pleasure. De Rogatis here addresses that same transnational, diverse, transversal audience. Elena Ferrante’s Key Words is conceived as a lighted path made of luminous key words that synthesize the multiform aspects of Ferrante’s writing and guide us through the labyrinth of her global success. “An exceptional companion to the source material, particularly for the lit-crit crowd looking to affirm Ferrante’s reinvention of the future of the novel.” —Library Journal

Elena Ferrante's Key Words

“I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent.” —Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng HuoZhou Kan Ferrante’s four-volume novel cycle known in English as the Neapolitan quartet has become a global success, with over ten million readers in close to fifty countries. Her readers recount feeling “addicted” to the novels; they describe a pleasure in reading that is as rare as it is irresistible, a compulsion that leads them either to devour the books or to ration them so as to prolong the pleasure. De Rogatis here addresses that same transnational, diverse, transversal audience. Keywords is conceived as a lighted path made of luminous key words that synthesise the multiform aspects of Ferrante’s writing and guide us through the labyrinth of her global success.

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