The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature : : Life Sentences and Their Geographies / / Robin Pickering-Iazzi.
Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-di...
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Pickering-Iazzi, Robin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature : Life Sentences and Their Geographies / Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020] ©2015 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cultural Spaces Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mafia Cityworlds: Geographies of Narration -- 1. The Female Mafia Imaginary: Contemporary Mafiose and Gabriella Badalamenti's Come l'oleandro -- 2. The Mafia and the (Non)sense of Place: Amelia Crisantino's Cercando Palermo -- 3. Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's Postmodern Geography of Impegno: Mafia Urban Desertification in Canto al deserto: Storia di Tina, soldato di mafia -- 4. Mafia Geographies of Voicelessness: Silvana La Spina's L'ultimo treno da Catania -- 5. Engendering Testimonial Geographies of Legality: Bodily Interiors, Urban Faces, Cyberspatialities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- CULTURAL SPACES restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader contemporary Italian life and offer implicit challenges, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by the mafia in various Italian cities.Despite the long tradition of representing the mafia in Italian literature, until now women's contributions to this literature have been overlooked. Pickering-Iazzi's aim is to encourage new critical reflection on a broader selection of literature through new theoretical lenses in order to enrich our understanding of crime fiction, Sicily and Sicilian identity in literature, narrative traits of the new Italian epic, and the cultural and social functions of storytelling in life and literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020) Crime in literature. Italian literature History and criticism Italy. Italian literature History and criticism. Mafia in literature. Mafia History Italy. Mafia Italy History. HISTORY / Europe / Italy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 9783110606812 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442625778 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442625778 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442625778.jpg |
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