In Elena Ferrante's acclaimed Neapolitan Novels, Lila disfigured her wedding photograph, masking it with black tape; in The Days of Abandonment, Olga cuts and pastes family photographs into a "monstrous collage"; and in Troubling Love, Delia draws over her mother's passport photo to sketch a self-portrait. Join Stiliana Milkova, Professor of Comparative Literature, for a talk exploring Ferrante's novels through the figures of creative women who manipulate mediums of visual representation to challenge male artistic practice and the male gaze from within their oppressive patriarchal society.
This event will be held in a wheelchair- and rolling walker-accessible building. The lecture space is wheelchair accessible, with moveable seating. Restrooms are gender-specific and wheelchair-accessible. Listening devices will be available for use during the presentation, but ASL interpretation is currently not scheduled for this event. Most talks will be recorded and available with closed captions on the museum’s YouTube page after the event. Please email access questions to Jill Greenwood, jgreenwo@oberlin.edu.
Open to all members of the public
