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

• Autore: Pickering-Iazzi Robin
• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 850.9/3556
• Soggetto topico: Mafia in literature; Crime in literature; Mafia - Italy - History; Italian literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Italy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Libros electronicos.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature
• ISBN: 1-4426-2578-3; 1-4426-2577-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911009210603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural spaces.; Toronto Italian studies.