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please find the first Call for Papers for the conference on 'Elena Ferrante in a Global Context' enclosed. Please submit your abstracts (max 250 words) together with a mini-bio to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by 9 December 2018. Papers can be given in either Italian or English.



Elena Ferrante in a Global Context, Durham University, 7-8 June 2019


Organisers: Tiziana De Rogatis (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Stiliana Milkova (Oberlin College) and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Durham University)

 

Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Prof Tiziana De Rogatis (Università per Stranieri di Siena)

 

The global success of Elena Ferrante’s so-called Neapolitan Novels has firmly established the author as one of the most powerful voices of contemporary World Literature. Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet interweaves an imaginary that is profoundly rooted in Italian – or more specifically Neapolitan - culture with some of the emergent topics and issues of globalisation as her female protagonists negotiate the tensions emerging between local identity and national and transnational belonging. The conference seeks to advance reflections on how Ferrante interrogates a series of margins – for instance relating to gender roles, topography or language – that are of relevance on a global scale. We would welcome a range of scholarly, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches that address some of (but not exclusively) the following topics:

 

 


Elena Ferrante nel contesto globale, Durham University, 7-8 giugno 2019

 

Keynote speaker confermati: Prof.ssa Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) e Prof.ssa Tiziana De Rogatis (Università per Stranieri di Siena)

 

Il successo globale del ciclo dell’Amica geniale ha imposto Elena Ferrante come una delle voci più potenti della attuale World Literature. La quadrilogia napoletana infatti intreccia un immaginario profondamente radicato nella cultura italiana – o più specificatamente napoletana – con alcune delle tematiche della globalizzazione, mentre le protagoniste gestiscono le tensioni che emergono fra identità locale e appartenenza nazionale e transnazionale. Il convegno vuole elaborare riflessioni sul modo in cui Ferrante interroga una serie di margini – connessi, ad esempio, ai ruoli di genere, alla topografia (urbana) o al linguaggio – che sono di rilevanza globale. Saremmo liete di ricevere delle proposte che tramite approcci analitici, interdisciplinari e comparatistici affrontino alcune delle seguenti tematiche (senza necessariamente limitarsi ad esse):

 



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Dr Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Associate Professor in Italian Studies/ Deputy Director of Postgraduate Education 
Director, MA in Languages, Literatures and Cultures 
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Durham University
Elvet Riverside
New Elvet
Durham DH1 3JT
+44 (0)191 3344353
https://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/italian/staff/display/?id=12937
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