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Resurgence and Reflections: A Feministic Reading of Elena Ferrate’s The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter and the Story of the Lost Child

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : IJITEE

Source : IJITEE, Volume 8, Issue 7 (2019)

Url : https://www.ijitee.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i7c/G10380587C19.pdf

Campus : Kochi

School : School of Arts and Sciences

Department : English

Year : 2019

Abstract : Elena Ferrante, the Italian novelist has written a fair amount of novels which emphasises her treatment of feminism. Ferrante belongs to an age where her generation had experienced feminism. The paper speaks about her governance of feminism through Ferrante’s various characters such as Olga, from The Days of Abandonment, Leda from The Lost Daughter, Elena and Lila from The Story of the Lost Child etc. Elena’s women are the ones who look forward for more clarity at the cost of other values considered fundamental to friendship in traditional terms and feminist norms. In most of her novels, we can find the writer herself becoming the central figure, who partially manifests the knitting of Ferrante’s sisterhood with her successful reception of tetralogy: Neapolitan novels which include her four major novels; The Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child.

Cite this Research Publication : Swathy Krishna C.B, Varsha K., and Meghana A.K, “Resurgence and Reflections: A Feministic Reading of Elena Ferrate’s The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter and the Story of the Lost Child”, IJITEE, vol. 8, no. 7, 2019.

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