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SUMMARY:Vertigo: Sexual Harassment in Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet
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 Through the father-and-son characters of Donato 
 and Nino Sarratore, Ferrante's epic tetralogy 
 of Neapolitan novels dramatizes its protagonist 
 Elena's disturbing experience of sexual 
 abuse in terms of repetition. In the end, no 
 prospect of justice or emotional resolution 
 offers itself to Elena as consolation for the 
 harassment and misogynist aggression that she 
 faces throughout the Neapolitan Quartet, particularly 
 in light of the fact that she appears 
 to forgive Donato over time. Through readings 
 of the language and events of the four novels, 
 I will investigate Ferrante's fearless 
 representation of women's sexuality and the 
 violence that they endure from men. This unflinching 
 frankness, I will argue, is the political 
 hallmark of Ferrante's writing.\n
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 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: CERES\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: https://ceres.isp.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: CERES\n
 Contact phone: 5173553277\n
 Contact email: ceres@isp.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:303 International Center
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