Storytelling Philosophy and Self Writing—Preliminary Notes on Elena Ferrante: An Interview with Adriana Cavarero

Pinto, Isabella Vitral; Milkova, Stiliana; Cavarero, Adriana

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“…Adriana Cavarero's Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (Cavarero 2000) 1 is one of the most prominent works of modern feminist philosophy in Italian. Ferrante cites it as a major influence, and Cavarero has recently spoken about these connections (Ferrante 2016, 330; Pinto, Milkova, and Cavarero 2020). 2 In a chapter titled “On the Outskirts of Milan,” Cavarero discusses the thought of the Milan Women by retelling a story that the Collective reported in Sexual Difference .…”

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Female Freedom and The Neapolitan Novels (Part 2)

Shpall

2022

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Part 1 of this essay began to develop a philosophical interpretation of The Neapolitan Novels by grounding a vision of the work's moral psychology in the tradition of Italian difference feminism, particularly as it is expressed in the texts of the influential Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. Part 2 advances the interpretive argument by presenting a more detailed literary analysis of the character of Lila Cerullo. After motivating the interest of various aspects of her symbolization by connecting them to important motifs in feminist philosophy and literature, I present evidence of Lila's special status in the work, and the puzzles this status raises. I advance a reading of Lila as a brilliant woman capable of playing the superior role in a hierarchical relationship of entrustment—and of The Neapolitan Novels as a sympathetic yet critical exploration of the viability of such relationships and their connection to female friendship and female freedom. In support of this reading, I give an account of Lila's strange condition of smarginatura (“dissolving margins/boundaries”), the import of her perplexing earthquake speech in which this condition is explicitly addressed, and Elena Greco's troubling reactions.

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Female Freedom and The Neapolitan Novels (Part 2)

Shpall

2022

Hypatia

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The Weight of the Paternal: Authorship and Gustave Flaubert’s Legacy in Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults

Alfano

2023

Romance Studies

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The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

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Mandalaki

2024

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This paper recounts herstories of domestic violence and separation, where by reading and writing of/through one another’s physical and emotional bruises, we create a healing autoethnographic space for connection. We argue that doing so allows us to acquire the feminist relational power necessary to resist when forms of patriarchal violence threaten to hit us again. Our embodied text converses with eclectic feminist works that empower us to write down our wor(l)ds, conceptualizing reading and writing as relational healing processes in this critical autoethnography. Engaging with a healing organizational autoethnography, we suggest, allows us to make sense of the violence and marginalization that masculine organizational norms enact on othered bodies; it leads to understanding knowledge creation more broadly as the relational labor of vulnerable bodies who care for each other. This autoethnographic exploration extends critical autoethnographic work and contributes to feminist debates on writing differently, underscoring the healing potential of reading in relation to writing to voice long-seated trauma in organizational research and experience. In this way, we also amplify the need to create organizational initiatives and spaces that make healing possible.

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Storytelling Philosophy and Self Writing—Preliminary Notes on Elena Ferrante: An Interview with Adriana Cavarero

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Female Freedom and The Neapolitan Novels (Part 2)

Female Freedom and The Neapolitan Novels (Part 2)

The Weight of the Paternal: Authorship and Gustave Flaubert’s Legacy in Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults

The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

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