Translating female voices: the ambivalence of female friendship in Ann Goldstein’s translation of Elena Ferrante’s <i>L’amica geniale</i>

Diplôme Master Translating female voices: the ambivalence of female friendship in Ann Goldstein’s translation of Elena Ferrante’s <i>L’amica geniale</i> eng 2024 author Hodson Esme Ann 984260 director Thien Danielle 748496 Services communs du département de traduction (TRACO) This thesis aims to build on the recent interest in Italian women's writing, with a focus on the work of Elena Ferrante. It will seek to explore the ambivalence at the heart of the depiction of female friendship in My Brilliant Friend (2012), Ann Goldstein’s translation of Elena Ferrante’s L’amica geniale (2011). In this text, we find a focus on a friendship between two women and a narrative form whereby the life story of one friend is narrated by and through the other. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s notion of the ‘narratable self’, this thesis seeks to examine the extent to which the conflicted nature of the female friendships depicted, i.e., the dichotomous nature of narratable notions of identity, whereby subjectivity is achieved through, yet also threatened by the other, is conveyed in translation. L’amica geniale My Brilliant Friend Female friendship Narrative Relationality Ambivalence Authorship World literature Translatability Dewey 418.02 Maîtrise universitaire en traduction spécialisée 111 Département de traduction 91 false 7487020b-1e8c-4105-9939-c92348ee198b Master thesis Restricted Esme_Hodson_UNIGE_DISSERTATION_FINA.pdf 738569 application/pdf c78069112e1a923470936fb30eb3b6202f52cb74e41281754379fc3f98e1831a restrictedAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traduction

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