Natalia Ginzburg's Global Legacies

Stiliana Milkova Rousseva is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Oberlin College, USA. She is the author of Elena Ferrante as World Literature (2021) and of numerous scholarly articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian literatures. Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA and affiliated faculty in German and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Kafka's Italian Progeny (2020), the winner of the 2020 AAIS Book Prize for Literary Studies.

• 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.