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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009210603321

Autore

Pickering-Iazzi Robin

Titolo

The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature : Life Sentences and Their Geographies / / Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-2578-3

1-4426-2577-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Cultural Spaces

Disciplina

850.9/3556

Soggetti

Mafia in literature

Crime in literature

Mafia - Italy - History

Italian literature - History and criticism

Libros electronicos.

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.