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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
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Description for The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies
Paperback. 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. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
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-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader contemporary Italian life and offer implicit challenges, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by the mafia in various Italian cities. Despite the long tradition of representing the mafia in Italian ... Read more
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-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader contemporary Italian life and offer implicit challenges, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by the mafia in various Italian cities. Despite the long tradition of representing the mafia in Italian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Cultural Spaces
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442629080
SKU
V9781442629080
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Ref
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About Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Robin Pickering-Iazzi is a professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her previous works include The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature and Mafia and Outlaw Stories, both published by University of Toronto Press.
Reviews for The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies
`This book provides an exciting analysis of mafia narratives... It will be of great value to scholars interested in Italian and comparative literature, Gender Studies, social justice, Mafia Studies, Trauma Studies, and Sicilian identity, to name just a few.'
Amy Boylan
Modern Language Review vol 112:04:2017
Amy Boylan
Modern Language Review vol 112:04:2017