Narrative· 2020Q2
Storytelling Philosophy and Self Writing—Preliminary Notes on Elena Ferrante: An Interview with Adriana Cavarero
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Short summary
Adriana Cavarero and Isabella Pinto explore how Elena Ferrante's narratives reveal the materiality of identity through the concepts of the "narratable self" and "relationality in a concrete situation," forging a new "pact with the reader."
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Key points
- Ferrante's identity materiality emerges from the philosophical landscape of the "narratable self" and "relationality in a concrete situation."
- The interview establishes a new "pact with the reader" through Ferrante's narrative approach.
- Italian feminist thought is presented as a tool to critique literary tradition and academic knowledge transmission.
- The subduing effect of social networks on "self writing" is also critiqued.
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Abstract
In this interview, Italian feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero discusses the complexity of Elena Ferrante's narratives. Connecting Cavarero's storytelling philosophy and Foucault's concept of <i>self writing</i>, the exchange between Cavarero and the young scholar Isabella Pinto shows how the materiality of Ferrante's identity emerges from the philosophical landscape of the "narratable self" and the "relationality in a concrete situation," thereby establishing a new "pact with the reader." Furthermore, the interview shows how Italian feminist thought can be used to reread literary tradition, to critique academic methods of transmission of knowledge, and to criticize the subduing effect of social networks on writing the self.
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