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Secrets of Life and Death
This volume focuses on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the Mafia, drawing on courtroom testimonies, interviews, contemporary journalism and recent research. Individual narratives illuminate women's experiences, both as victims or active opponents.
Sicilian Avengers
A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time. Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean caves of Palermo, the Beati Paoli, masked and hooded, mete out their own form of justice to counter the unfettered power and privilege wielded by the aristocracy. For the voiceless, weak, and oppressed, the Beati Paoli are defenders and heroes. Reminiscent of a Dumas novel, Sicilian Avengers is a vibrant, atmospheric fresco of early eighteenth-century Palermo. Onto the stage of the ancient city, Blasco da Castiglione, a bold, brash, orphan adventurer, arrives on a quest to discover his origins and seek ...
The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature
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.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Manufacturing Citizenship
In recent years citizenship has emerged as a very important topic in the sciences, mainly as a result of the effects of migration, population displacements and cultural heterogeneity. This book focuses on educational enterprise and how it affects national ambitions, cultural preferences and political trends. It also examines the major effects of globalisation, the large-scale movements of populations, and the impact this all has in terms of education and citizenship. With contributions from an array of international scholars including Etienne Balibar, and featuring various international case studies, Manufacturing Citizenship will be extremely interesting to the education academic community as well as many readers within cultural studies and politics.
Reversible Destiny
Annotation A fascinating exploration of the history and organizational dynamics of the Sicilian Mafia, through which the authors lead us to an understanding of both the difficulties and accomplishments of Sicily's various antimafia efforts.
Swinging Palermo
Una biografia, di Palermo, e una autobiografia, un libro di formazione, un album di ritratti, un modo diverso di pensare la storia della città dagli anni Sessanta in poi. Tutto questo e molto altro è 'Swinging Palermo'.
L'uomo che inventò i Beati Paoli
Un ritratto appassionato di Luigi Natoli, autore de I Beati Paoli. Palermitano, non solo per nascita, ma per «cultura, per amore verso la città e verso la regione, per passione verso la storia della Sicilia». La capacità straordinaria di narratore e il rigore da storico, la lingua colta, elegante, la conduzione dell’intreccio sapiente, la coscienza patriottica e democratica, la vocazione per il «popolare», fecero sì che il romanzo d’appendice nelle sue mani diventasse capolavoro.
Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature
The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani, and Silvana La Spina, as well as famous witnesses such as Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, and Rita Atria who provide personal, often terrifying testimonies about their experiences with the Mafia. It is a historically diverse examination of criminal and outlaw institutions by some of the most significant figures in Italian literature. These newly translated writings show the ways in which I...
