Polit Dueñas, Gabriela. <br/><br/>
Narrating Narcos :  Culiacán and Medellín. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (242 pages) 
 - Illuminations Series ;  v.74 .
 - Illuminations Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Places -- 2. The Book in Three Culichi Novels -- 3. The Author, the Crime, the Idiot, and the Language of the Narcos -- 4. Dealing with Everyday Violence: The Journalist and the Painter -- 5. The Epics of Two Highlanders: Cástulo Bojórquez and Ramón Guerrero -- 6. The Problematic Emergence of Sicarios in Colombia -- 7. Love and Letters in the Times of Narcos -- 8. Gender and Genre in Héctor Abad Faciolince's Angosta -- 9. Playing with Stereotypes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover. 
<br/><br/> A probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Due-as juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiacan, Mexico, and Medellin, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence, corruption, and avarice and their influence over locally based cultural texts. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822979098 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mexican fiction-Mexico-Culiacán (Sinaloa)-History and criticism.<br/>Drug traffic in literature.<br/>Violence in literature.<br/>Colombian fiction-Colombia-Medellín-History and criticism.<br/>Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico)-In literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7291