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Stiliana Milkova

Stiliana Milkova is associate professor of comparative literature at Oberlin College and a translator from Italian. Her scholarly publications include articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian literature, and the forthcoming monograph Elena Ferrante as World Literature (Bloomsbury Academic). icon

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Ferrante Breaks the Frame

By Stiliana Milkova

A defaced family photograph—with an ancestor cut out—reveals to Ferrante’s new protagonist how women are erased by the words and deeds of men.

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