Italian Crime Fiction In The Era Of The Anti Mafia Movement

Author : William Farina
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476677354

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Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the Anti-Mafia Movement by William Farina Pdf

Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. Though beginning in the Italian language, this prolific, popular movement has more recently found its way into the English language and hence it has found a much wider international audience. Following a brief, yet detailed, history of the cultural and economic development of Sicily, this book provides a multilayered look into the evolution of the New Italian Epic genre. The works of ten prominent contemporary writers, including Andrea Camilleri, Michael Dibdin, Elena Ferrante, and Massimo Carlotto, are examined against the backdrop of various historical periods. This "past is prologue" approach to contemporary crime fiction provides context for the creation of these recent novels and enhances understanding of the complex moral ambiguity that is characteristic of anti-mafia Italian crime fiction.

Author : William Farina
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476639680

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Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the Anti-Mafia Movement by William Farina Pdf

Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. Though beginning in the Italian language, this prolific, popular movement has more recently found its way into the English language and hence it has found a much wider international audience. Following a brief, yet detailed, history of the cultural and economic development of Sicily, this book provides a multilayered look into the evolution of the New Italian Epic genre. The works of ten prominent contemporary writers, including Andrea Camilleri, Michael Dibdin, Elena Ferrante, and Massimo Carlotto, are examined against the backdrop of various historical periods. This "past is prologue" approach to contemporary crime fiction provides context for the creation of these recent novels and enhances understanding of the complex moral ambiguity that is characteristic of anti-mafia Italian crime fiction.

Author : Nathan Ashman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984514

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The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology by Nathan Ashman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up ‘classic’ crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship – from thematic to formal approaches – in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.

Author : Umberto Santino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857726940

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Mafia and Antimafia by Umberto Santino Pdf

The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's leading mafia experts, here provides a new perspective on the mafia: as a polymorphic organization which encompasses crime, the accumulation of corruptly acquired wealth and power, the cultural code of omerta and consensus. Exploring the movements which strive to fight against the powers of the mafia, such as the campaigns of civil society organizations like the Centro siciliano di documentazione, the author also provides a fresh look at the mechanisms - and struggles - of the antimafia movement.

Author : John Dickie
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848940550

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Cosa Nostra by John Dickie Pdf

COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time, COSA NOSTRA reconstructs the complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the present day, from the lemon groves and sulphur mines of Sicily, to the streets of Manhattan. COSA NOSTRA is a definitive history, rich in atmosphere, and with the narrative pace of the best detective fiction, and has been updated to make it the most vital contemporary account of the mafia ever published. The mob genre has finally grown up.

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476613567

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Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (b. 1925), Loriano Macchiavelli (b. 1934), Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956), and Marcello Fois (b. 1960). Through the analysis of writers belonging to differing crucial periods of Italy's history, this work reveals the many ways in which authors exploit the genre to reflect social transformation and dysfunction.

Author : John Dickie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Organized crime
ISBN : 0340833386

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Cosa Nostra by John Dickie Pdf

COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time, COSA NOSTRA reconstructs the complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the present day, from the lemon groves and sulphur mines of Sicily, to the streets of Manhattan. COSA NOSTRA is a definitive history, rich in atmosphere, and with the narrative pace of the best detective fiction. The mob genre has finally grown up.

Author : A. Jamieson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333983423

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The Antimafia by A. Jamieson Pdf

This exploration of the full diversity of the Italian Antimafia draws on primary sources and interviews to provide the first complete analysis of social, political and grassroots efforts since 1992. This fascinating study looks at Antimafia initiatives within the context of international initiatives against organized crime.

Author : Alexander Stille
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679768630

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Excellent Cadavers by Alexander Stille Pdf

In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with such insight and immediacy in Excellent Cadavers. Combining a profound understanding of his doomed heroes with and unprecedented look into the Mafia's stringent codes and murderous rivalries, he gives us a book that has the power of a great work of history and the suspense of a true thriller. "Riveting...a well-paced and highly informative account stocked with well-drawn characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Masterful...[Stille] delivers a stiletto-sharp portrait of the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia."--Business Week

Author : Gianrico Carofiglio
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912242559

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The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio Pdf

The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that's not the reason why it is still remembered. On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia judges became heroes but the violence spread to the region of Bari in Puglia, where we meet a new, memorable character, Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Italian Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently abandoned by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the new gang wars raging around Bari. The police are stymied until a gang member, accused of killing a child, decides to collaborate, revealing the inner workings and the rules governing organised crime in the area. The story is narrated through the actual testimony of the informant, a trope reminiscent of verbatim theatre which Carofiglio, an ex-anti-mafia judge himself, uses to great effect. The gangs are stopped but the mystery of the boy's murder must still be solved, leading Fenoglio into a world of deep moral ambiguity, where the prosecutors are hard to distinguish from the prosecuted.

Author : Tom Behan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415099875

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The Camorra by Tom Behan Pdf

Over the last twenty years the camorra of Naples and the surrounding region has risen to a level of strength rivalling that of the Sicilian mafia. This is not a new organization: the Camorra first emerged in the last century, several decades before the mafia. Tom Behan traces the history of the organization from its inception to the present. Until the 1970s the extent of its influence fluctuated, although it always maitained close relationships with the politiciains of the region. However, since the 1970s new and more powerful forms of camorra have developed: Raffaele Cutola's 'mass camorra' of unemployed youth specialise in protection rackets, Lorenzo Nuvoletta's 'business camorra' has reinvested drug money into construction following the 1980 earthquake, and Carmine Alfieri's 'political camorra' has become extremely profitable through its ability to obtain public sector contracts. The Camorrais a fascinating account of the transformation of the small-time cigarette smugglers of the 1960s to the international entrepreneurs of the 1990s.

Author : Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1442625775

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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature by Robin Pickering-Iazzi Pdf

Author : Clare Longrigg
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004270374

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Mafia Women by Clare Longrigg Pdf

Women in the Mafia are taking a leading role. They kill for revenge, buy arms, run extortion rackets, recycle drug money. Some want to be bosses themselves. Claire Longrigg has tracked these women down and they have talked to her at length. In this brave and vivid book she describes the traditional - and changing - role of women in the Cosa Nostra, both in Italy and the USA. She writes too, of how women have used their knowledge of the Mafia to escape from it, by turning informer to win freedom from violent marriages and to give their children a future. This movement has started a social revolution. The Mafia can no longer depend on women to be silent martyrs- in the future they will either be partners - or they will bring the organisation down.

Author : Alexander Stille
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 9780099594918

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Excellent Cadavers by Alexander Stille Pdf

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances.

Author : John Dickie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Camorra
ISBN : 1444726420

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Mafia Republic by John Dickie Pdf

Shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become ever more interconnected since World War II through their criminal business interests in tobacco smuggling, construction, kidnapping, and narcotics.