• DEAD SILENT:Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 – Robin Pickering-Iazzi

    DEAD SILENT: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 Robin Pickering-Iazzi University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Libro on-line: dc.uwm.edu   The first history of its kind in English, this work reconstructs the life stories of over two-hundred girls and women who lived throughout the regions of Italy from 1878 to 2018, and were killed by members of the Italian mafia organizations, which include the camorra, Cosa Nostra, ’ndrangheta, and the United Sacred Crown. Each life history seeks first of all to identify the victim with her own name, and draw out the uniqueness and individuality of her life and…