Full Description
Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg's works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry. The first section, "World Literature and World Making," uses translation practices, world literature, and transnational studies to theorize the growing popularity of Ginzburg. The second section, "Female Bodies, Voices, and Gazes," draws on gender and queer studies, speech act theory, intersectional feminism, and media studies to begin to address gaps in Ginzburg scholarship. The last section, "Identity, Topography, and Forms," approaches Ginzburg through the lenses of trauma studies, topography, novel and essay studies, and Jewish identity. Natalia Ginzburg's Global Legacies both makes available in English important Italian research and builds on significant international discourses. In bridging Italian and Anglophone scholarship, the volume engages students and scholars of Comparative and Italian literature, world literature, and women's writing, as well as general readers of Ginzburg.
Contents
Chapter 1- Global Ginzburg: Reading Natalia Ginzburg in the 21st Century.- Part One. World Literature and the World.- Chapter 2- Publishing Natalia Ginzburg in the Anglophone World.- Chapter 3. Ginzburg's Worlds: The World-making Power of the Short Story.- Chapter 4. Born untranslatable? On the Transnational Circulation of Ginzburg's Family Lexicon.- Part Two. Female Bodies, Voices, and Gazes.- Chapter 5. Women's Bodies in Natalia Ginzburg's Fictions.- Chapter 6. The Female Voice as a Form of Resistance: Natalia Ginzburg's Speech Acts.- Chapter 7. From Closet to Absence: Queering Family Roles and Gender Norms in Natalia Ginzburg's Valentino and Happiness, As Such.- Chapter 8. "When a film is good, I remember it": Natalia Ginzburg at the Movies.- Part Three. Identity, Topography, and Form.- Chapter 9. Topographies of Trauma, Loss, and Mourning in Natalia Ginzburg's Early Works.- Chapter 10. Narrative Modes in Elsa Morante and Natalia Ginzburg's Family Novels.- Chapter 11. Neither Rich, Nor Poor, Neither Jewish, Nor Catholic: The Legacies of Natalia Ginzburg's Negations .- Chapter 12. Natalia Ginzburg's Essay "The Jews" and Its Trials.
