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- Title
Crimen, criminalidad y ficción: el asesinato de Jimmy Hoffa, mafia y la literatura.
- Authors
Duque Daza, Javier
- Abstract
Objective: This article analyzes the book I Heard You Paint Houses, translated into Spanish as El irishman. Hoffa, case closed. The book reconstructs various events in the recent history of organized crime and politics in the United States and presents a new version of the death of union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Methodology: is an analysis and interpretation of a non-fiction work that is systematically contrasted with other similar works. The text locates the historical background of Francis Sheeran's biography on Hoffa, presents some of the most relevant facts of the development of the mafia in the United States between 1957-1990 and the debates generated by the book. It serves as a pretext to return to analyzes of the relationships between fiction and non-fiction in the social sciences. Results: The result of the analysis is that this book presents a plausible version of the facts due to the handling of the sources, the verification of the facts and because it has not yet been refuted with new evidence.
- Subjects
ORGANIZED crime; HISTORY of crime; HOUSE painting; NONFICTION; MAFIA
- Publication
Ánfora, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 54, p183
- ISSN
0121-6538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30854/anf.v30.n54.2023.813