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Title Gendered Violence and Hegemonic Masculinity: A Foucauldian and Bakhtinian Critique of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name

Author(s) Sajmas Urooj

Abstract This research explores the nuances of gendered violence and hegemonic masculinity and the consequent impeding underpinnings in the formation of identity of female protagonists of Ferrante’s novels My Brilliant Friend (2011) and The Story of a New Name (2012). This study triangulates Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity, Bakhtin’s notions of monologism, dialogism, monoglossia and heteroglossia and Foucault’s ideas concerning heterotopia, the places and spaces of marginalized, discursive power structures and their role in obstructing agency and identity to devise the theoretical framework. Syllogizing these Connellian, Bakhtinian and Foucauldian conceptualizations, this research has investigated the infiltration of authoritarian monologic power structures in the lower strata of society which orchestrates gendered violence, class warfare, financial exploitation and corruption at the micro levels of society. This study has particularized the monologic power relations which infiltrate the micro levels of society in the postwar Italy to hinder and resist the dialogic ambits as portrayed by Ferrante in the selected texts. Furthermore, this research has investigated the factors that prompt the hegemonic violence which espouses masculine and feminine violence and in turn obstructs female growth and identity. Subsequently, it has exposed the nuances of gendered violence as a result of the intersections of class and gender authoritarianism which impede and hegemonize growth, agency and identity as portrayed in the heterotopic Neapolitan society through the female protagonists.

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Language English

Publication Date 2023-03-07

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