Global Perspectives, Trauma, and the Global Novel. Ferrante's Poetics between Storytelling, Uncanny Realism, and Dissolving Margins

This article is divided into four sections. The first section identifies the link between globalization and trauma by examining various aspects of the coronavirus crisis − the event set to become the trauma of this new millennium − and its repercussions on the very concept of globalization. The second section will briefly introduce the salient features of the globalized imaginary that emerge in relation to the global novel and other genres of writing. The third sectione outlines several characteristic features of the global novel and its “traumatic realism” (Foster 130) and “planetary realism” (Ganguly, Catastrophic 422). Finally, The fourth section will focus on the global features of Ferrante’s poetics, discussing these in relation to the ideas presented in the preceding sections.