Challenging the Mafia Mystique

Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation

Salvatore Coluccello, Rino Coluccello (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2014 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-55552-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides an analysis of the changes the Sicilian mafia has undergone from legitimisation to denunciation. It argues that conceptualisations of the mafia in public and scientific debate, during the nineteenth and more than half of the twentieth century, created a mystique that legitimised the mafia and contributed to their success.

Introduction1. The Origins of the Mafia as a Criminal Phenomenon and as a Forma Mentis2. The Abolition of Feudalism, Mafia in the Unified Kingdom and I Mafiusi della Vicaria3. Public and Private Enquiries on the Criminal Consortium: But the Mafia Doesn't Exist4. Mafia and Politics in Sicilian Society at the End of the 19th Century: The Notarbartolo Affair, The Formation of 'Sicilianism' and Consolidation of the Mafia Mystique.5. The Literature of Defence and the 'Heresy' of Don Sturzo.6. The Popular Legitimisation of the Mafia: The Beati Paoli and the Mafioso as an Avenger7. Fascism and the Surrender of the Mafia, the Allied Invasion and the Return of the Villains8. The Breaking Point: A New Image of the Mafia9. Leonardo Sciascia: The Writer as the Public Conscience10. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Cosa Nostra • Crime • Crime and Society • Criminology • Gangs • Italian Literature • Mafia • organised crime • politics and crime
ISBN-10	1-349-55552-5 / 1349555525
ISBN-13	978-1-349-55552-9 / 9781349555529
Zustand	Neuware