Abstract
ABSTRACT This article seeks to explore the models for female existence depicted in Elena Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono (2002), specifically those which bypass conceptualisation according to patriarchal prescriptions for female behaviour. I examine the ways in which Ferrante presents female existence as controlled by patriarchal narratives, before shifting to an exploration of the processes that allow a transcendence of such narratives. This article suggests that I giorni dell’abbandono presents a framework through which women are able to conceptualise the world and their existence through relation to each other, undoing the alienating and limiting forces of patriarchal oppression.
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