By Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Using an array of cultural records from 1990 to the current, together with diaries, stories, fiction, on-line video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by means of the Italian mafia via a large cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways in which those literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader modern Italian lifestyles and provide implicit demanding situations, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by means of the mafia in numerous Italian cities.
Despite the lengthy culture of representing the mafia in Italian literature, beforehand women’s contributions to this literature were ignored. Pickering-Iazzi’s target is to motivate new severe mirrored image on a broader choice of literature via new theoretical lenses so one can enhance our knowing of crime fiction, Sicily and Sicilian identification in literature, narrative characteristics of the recent Italian epic, and the cultural and social capabilities of storytelling in existence and literature.
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