Public lecture:
Dissolving margins between life, writing,
and reading in Elena Ferrante’s My
Brilliant Friend
Ferrante’s quadrilogy is a
story of female friendship that challenges the patriarchal sexual, social, and
linguistic order of post-world war II Italy. I read the intertwined lives of
the protagonists, Elena and Lila, as a space of resistance, agency, and creativity
and propose that Ferrante is appealing to women to
recognise the power of women’s words and to utilise them to create this space.
Speaker:
Prof. Adalgisa Giorgio
Department
of Politics, Languages and International Studies
University
of Bath
26 February 6 pm University of
Auckland Arts 1 315
Free Entry
