Mezzogiorno (Hardback Edition)
Life. Death. Southern Italy.
Author:
David Kerekes
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152mm x 229mm
Page Count:
186
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250
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A work of biography, autobiography, fable and fact, spanning three generations of southern Italian family life.
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"Europe ends at Naples and ends badly.
Calabria, Sicily and all the rest belong to Africa."
Creuzé de Lesser, 1806
No geographical map distinguishes Montefalcione as being different from any number of isolated mountain villages in southern Italy. It has ancient customs and its own saints and feast days, like other villages.
Yet Montefalcione in Campania is the setting for a unique meditation on family and the Italian Diaspora, reconstructing three generations of village life through myth, superstition, and the anecdotal history of the author’s own family.
The drama unfolds amidst a landscape of peasant riots, vicious landlords, religious festival, feuds, the collapse of the Fascist party, and the tarantella — a world lost to the changing face of the twenty-first century.
By David Kerekes, co-author of Killing for Culture and See No Evil.
Chapters:
List of characters
- When entering the village of Montefalcione
- Italy Iantosca 1955
- The tradition of the chicken
- Bread & labour
- A slight earthquake
- Brigandage
- The evil eye
- Duce, fascisti!
- A dozen ricottas
- Sanduccio’s gate
- Jus sanguinis
- Contraband
- A fight at the wedding
- The drowning of Martignetti’s wife & daughter
- Montevergine
- The election day quarrel
- Natalina falls ill
- Zi Minuccio, the agent for the village
- Festa
- A toast to Saravatico
- Diaspora
Bibliography & Sources
Acknowledgements
About the author
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