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Medea
Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf explodes this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle. Medea, driven by her conscience to leave her corrupt homeland, arrives in Corinth with her husband, the hero Jason. He is welcomed, but she is branded the outsider-and then she discovers the appalling secret behind the king's claim to power. Unwilling to ignore the horrifying truth about the state, she becomes a threat to the king and his ruthless advisors; abandoned by Jason and made a public scapegoat, she is reviled as a witch and a murderess. Long a sharp-eyed political observer, Christa Wolf transforms this ancient tale into a startlingly relevant commentary on our times. Possessed of the enduring truths so treasured in the classics, and yet with a thoroughly contemporary spin, her Medea is a stunningly perceptive and probingly honest work of fiction.
Medea
Author: Christa Wolf
language: it
Publisher: E/O Edizioni
Release Date: 2012-12-01T00:00:00+01:00
Nel romanzo di Christa Wolf, Medea è una donna forte e libera, una «maga» depositaria di un «sapere del corpo e della terra». È questo «secondo sguardo» che le fa scoprire un orribile segreto nascosto nel sottosuolo del palazzo reale di Corinto. Medea dovrà pagare per aver svelato il crimine su cui si fonda il potere. Non saprà né vorrà difendersi perché – dopo aver abbandonato la natia Colchide, anch’essa macchiata di sangue innocente – non ha più radici né ideali che la sostengano. In Medea ritroviamo la riscrittura radicale del mito già presente in Cassandra. La figura di Medea ci è stata consegnata da Euripide soprattutto come la madre che ha ucciso i propri figli, la violenza irrazionale contrapposta alla razionalità patriarcale della civiltà greca. Christa Wolf ribalta questa versione con una vera e propria indagine riallacciandosi alle fonti antecedenti Euripide.
Women and the Mafia
Author: Giovanni Fiandaca
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2007-09-04
The insightful essays in this book shine a new light on the roles of women within criminal networks, roles that in reality are often less traditional than researchers used to think. The book seeks to answer questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and traces the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world. The book offers up accounts of mafia women, and also tales of severe abuse and violence against women.