Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Crisantino, Amelia,; Deledda, Grazia,; Invernizio, Carolina,; Natoli, Luigi,; Nuccio, Giuseppe Ernesto,; Occhipinti, Maria,; Ortese, Anna Maria,; Spina, Silvana la,; Stefani, Livia de,; Verga, Giovanni,
• TeilnehmendeR: Pickering-Iazzi, Robin.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Not the Sopranos ... Viewing the Mafia and Outlaws through Italian Eyes
• The Gold Key
• An Episode of Brigandage
• The Blessed Paulists
• Testagrossa Agrees
• The Hired Killer
• The Carob Tree
• Montelepre
• Searching for Palermo
• The Truvatura
• The Mafia at My Back
• Testimonies
• Testimony Maria Saladino
• Testimony Felicia Impastato
• Testimony Letizia Battaglia
• Testimony Rita Atria
• About the Authors
• Selected Bibliography