The Godfather and Sicily Power Honor Family and Evil 1st Edition by Raymond Angelo Belliotti ISBN 978-1438484310 1438484313
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ISBN 10: 1438484313
ISBN 13: 978-1438484310
Author: Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.
In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequence in terms of an existential conflict between two sets of values that offer competing visions of the world: on the one hand, a nineteenth-century Sicilian perspective grounded in honor and the accumulation of power within a culturally specific family order; and on the other, a twentieth-century American perspective that celebrates individualism and commercial success. Analyzing concepts such as honor, power, will to power, respect, atonement, repentance, forgiveness, and a meaningful life, Belliotti applies these analyses to the cultural understandings transported to America by nineteenth-century Italian immigrants, casting fresh light on Old World allegiances to l’ordine della famiglia (the family order), la via vecchia (the old way), and the patriarchal ideal of uomo di pazienza (the man of patience), as well as the Sicilian code of honor. The two sets of values-Old World Sicilian and twentieth-century American-coalesce uneasily in the same cultural setting, and their conflict is irresolvable.
Table of contents:
Chapter One The Passions and Limitations of Honor
Chapter Two The Sicilian Family Order
Chapter Three Power, Destiny, and Evil
Chapter Four Repentance, Atonement, and Redemption
Appendix A Summarizing The Godfather
Appendix B Summarizing The Godfather II
Appendix C Summarizing The Godfather III
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