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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2015
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Cultural Spaces
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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