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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Life Sentences and Their Geographies

By: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Life Sentences and Their Geographies

By: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

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 literature, until now women’s contributions to this literature have been overlooked. Pickering-Iazzi’s aim is to encourage new critical reflection on a broader selection of literature through new theoretical lenses in order to enrich our understanding of crime fiction, Sicily and Sicilian identity in literature, narrative traits of the new Italian epic, and the cultural and social functions of storytelling in life and literature.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442625783

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9781442625785

Politics of the Visible

Writing Women, Culture, and Fascism

By: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

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Politics of the Visible

Writing Women, Culture, and Fascism

By: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Challenges assumptions about Italian women writers under fascism. In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was generally an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else", mostly forgotten or overlooked in accounts of femininity under fascism, is what concerns Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Reading works by women of the period, Pickering-Iazzi shows how they refuted stereotypes that were imposed on them by the fascist regime and continue to be accepted and perpetuated into our day. The writers Pickering-Iazzi considers comprise both the popular and the critically acclaimed, including the illustrious Grazia Deledda (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926), Ada Negri, Sibilla Aleramo, Alba De Cespedes, Paola Drigo, Maria Goretti, and Antonia Pozzi. She situates their work -- short stories, romance novels, autobiographies, neorealist novels, poetry, and avant-garde writings -- not only within the context of fascist discourse but also within that of intellectuals and artists who did not keep to the fascist line. In each case, Pickering-Iazzi examines specific issues of gender and genre -- notions of women and the nation, rural life, the metropolis, technology, consumer culture, and modern forms of femininity and masculinity.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816629234

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9780816629237

Access 2002 - Introductory

By: Kenneth C. Laudon,Robin L. Pickering

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Access 2002 - Introductory

By: Kenneth C. Laudon,Robin L. Pickering

Presents a visual and interactive way to develop and apply software skills. The skills based approach of this title, coupled with its illustrated, 2 page-spread design is meant for the intro CIS course, the self-paced course or students in non-traditional education settings.

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McGraw-Hill Technology Education

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007247257X

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9780072472578

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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Politics of the Visible

Politics of the Visible

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