Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature - Life Sentences and Their Geographies

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robin Pickering-Iazzi
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781442629080
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-2908-0
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Cultural Spaces; Cultural Spaces
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy