Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Robin Pickering-Iazzi is a professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her previous works include The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature and Mafia and Outlaw Stories, both published by University of Toronto Press.

• Introduction: Mafia Cityworlds: Geographies of Narration1. The Female Mafia Imaginary: Contemporary Mafiose and Gabriella Badalamenti’s Come l’oleandro2. The Mafia and the (Non)sense of Place: Amelia Crisantino’s Cercando Palermo3. Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s Postmodern Geography of impegno: Mafia Urban Desertification in Canto al deserto4. Mafia Geographies of Voicelessness: Silvana La Spina’s L’ultimo treno da Catania5. Engendering Testimonial Geographies of Legality: Bodily Interiors, Urban Faces, Cyberspatialities

‘This book provides an exciting analysis of mafia narratives… It will be of great value to scholars interested in Italian and comparative literature, Gender Studies, social justice, Mafia Studies, Trauma Studies, and Sicilian identity, to name just a few.’- Amy Boylan (Modern Language Review vol 112:04:2017) "In her detailed and insightful study of the Italian Mafia since 1990, Robin Pickering-Iazzi guides readers through multilayered, cultural, and sociological narratives by women…Her book gives scholars and students new tools and a set of original theoretical approaches to use in contemplating Southern Italian culture and its landscape. It offers a refreshing approach to understanding the geographies of organized crime and those who fight against it."- Giovanna De Luca, College of Charleston (Gender/Sexuality/Italy, August 2019)