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Tina, Mafia Soldier
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli; Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
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To Mussolini, she was either "donna-madre", the lauded domestic
model, or "donna-crisi", intellectual, masculine, a degenerate
type. But woman, as "Mothers of Invention" shows, was not a
category so easily defined or contained by the Italian Fascist
state. This volume is the first thorough investigation of culture
produced by Italian women during Fascism (1922-1943). In
literature, painting, sculpture, film, and fashion, the
contributors explore the politics of invention articulated by these
women as they negotiated prevailing ideologies. Essays on women's
film spectatorship, on Anna Kuliscioff as the leading feminist in
the Socialist party, on Teresa Labriola's concept of Fascist
feminism, on futurism and on Irene Brin's reportage of female
fashion and self-invention examine women in mass culture, political
thought, and daily living.
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.
Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to
the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and
anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication
and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in
Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily
newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth
of contributions by famous and less-known woman that have been
unavailable to readers in Italy as well as the United States for
over 60 years. Expertly translated, these 16 stories are evidence
not only of the high literary quality of this body of work but also
of resistance to the self-sacrificing ideal of the "New Woman" of
Fascism. The memorable female characters in "Unspeakable Women"
adopt a varying strategies to create their own identities and
agency regarding writing, sexuality, marriage, and family-all in
opposition to the repressive norms of the culture. The stories are
by Grazia Deledda, who won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1926,
Maria Luisa Astaldi, Gianna Manzini, Ada Negri, Carola Prosperi,
Pia Rimini, and Clarice Tartufari.
The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia
influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as
Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004,
exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote
antimafia activities. The societal opposition to mafia influence
continues to grow and the Internet has become a frontline in the
battle between the two groups. The Italian Antimafia, New Media,
and the Culture of Legality is the first book to examine the online
battles between the mafia and its growing cohort of opponents.
While the mafia's supporters have used Internet technologies to
expand its power, profits, and violence, antimafia citizens employ
the same technologies to recreate Italian civil society. The
contributors to this volume are experts in diverse fields and offer
interdisciplinary studies of antimafia activism and legality in
online journalism, Twitter, YouTube, digital storytelling, blogs,
music, and photography. These examinations enable readers to
understand the grassroots Italian cultural revolution, which makes
individuals responsible for promoting justice, freedom, and
dignity.
The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia
influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as
Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004,
exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote
antimafia activities. The societal opposition to mafia influence
continues to grow and the Internet has become a frontline in the
battle between the two groups. The Italian Antimafia, New Media,
and the Culture of Legality is the first book to examine the online
battles between the mafia and its growing cohort of opponents.
While the mafia's supporters have used Internet technologies to
expand its power, profits, and violence, antimafia citizens employ
the same technologies to recreate Italian civil society. The
contributors to this volume are experts in diverse fields and offer
interdisciplinary studies of antimafia activism and legality in
online journalism, Twitter, YouTube, digital storytelling, blogs,
music, and photography. These examinations enable readers to
understand the grassroots Italian cultural revolution, which makes
individuals responsible for promoting justice, freedom, and
dignity.
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 Italians
perceived and wrote about the Mafia and crime from the 1880s to the
1990s. Among them are stories dealing with the important legends
used by the Mafia as sources for their image and ideology, legends
such as the brigand and the Blessed Paulists. Some of the
fascinating themes discussed are connections between the Mafia, the
State, and the Catholic Church; the Mafia and children; women and
the Mafia; the Black Hand; and relations between the Mafia and the
Allied Forces during the Second World War. Robin Pickering-Iazzi
incorporates an invaluable introduction that charts key periods in
the history of Italy and the Mafia, and profiles each of the
authors in the collection, noting their major works in Italian as
well as those available in English. These and other features make
this text especially appropriate for courses in Italian
studies.
Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature takes
a unique and intriguing approach to the subject of the Mafia, and
offers informedjudgements about its historical impact on Italian
society and culture.
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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