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Robin Pickering-Iazzi - The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies - 9781442631892 - V9781442631892
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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies

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Description for The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies hardcover. 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: 249 x 193 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Spaces
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442631892
SKU
V9781442631892
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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
"In her detailed and insightful study of the Italian Mafia since ... Read more

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