Challenging the mafia mystique : Cosa Nostra from legitimisation to denunciation /: Cosa Nostra from legitimisation to denunciation. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rino Coluccello.
• Authors: Coluccello, Salvatore, 1962-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.10609; Literature; Mafia -- History; Organized crime -- Italy -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Mafia; Organized crime; Social Science -- Criminology; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Organized crime; Crime & criminology; Sociology; Literature, Modern-20th century; Organized crime; Crime—Sociological aspects; Criminology; Literary studies: from c 1900; Italy; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137280503; 1137280506
• Related ISBNs: 9781137280497
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 18, 2016).
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