The Mafia in Italian lives and literature : life sentences and their geographies /

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Pickering-Iazzi uses an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present to examine the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pickering-Iazzi, Robin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Cultural spaces.
Subjects:
Mafia in literature.
Crime in literature.
Mafia > Italy > History.
Italian literature > History and criticism.
Criminalité dans la littérature.
Mafia > Italie > Histoire.
Littérature italienne > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
Crime in literature
Italian literature
Mafia
Mafia in literature
Italy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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

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