NAPOLI It is entitled “Napoli ritrovata-Stories of resistance and active citizenship, beyond Gomorra”, and is edited by Manuela Bertone and Alessandro Leiduan for Luigi Pellegrino Editore: it is the second volume of the series “Quaderni dell’ORC / Cahiers de l’ORC”, the Observatory of Criminal Story / Observatoire du Récit Criminel. The volume – explains Pellegrini Editore – «offers a series of critical contributions in which Roberto Saviano’s long writing journey is reconstructed and updated, and the contradictions that, over time, have highlighted the fragility of the author’s civil and political commitment are brought to light. Gomorrah and called into question the consistency and value of his most famous literary work. Furthermore, the floor is given to those who operate in the area, to protagonists of the Neapolitan resistance, to militants engaged in active citizenship initiatives, far from the hypocrisy of the salon, commercial and radical chic anti-mafia; to people aligned against the fallacy and illusory nature of the folklore representations of the Camorra proposed by fictionagainst the massive production of cheap stereotypes linked to Naples and its inhabitants. In concrete terms, a series of interventions coming from various realities of the Neapolitan context, which give back to the word “testimony” a high and full meaning, re-establishing in daily practice the community and intersubjective value of the fare. The testimony – of a magistrate, a historian, a priest, an educator, an activist, a journalist – intended not as a self-promotional posture of a pop or rock star, but rather as an experience lived and attested in vivohanded down from people and between people. So that the ideas of a territory aware of its own potential, of its own needs, that knows how to look at and represent itself, can emerge and prevail. Naples is not at all weak, lost, but a combative, strong-willed Naples. Naples rediscovered: precisely».
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