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Narrating Narcos : Culiacán and Medellín.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822979098
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narrating NarcosLOC classification:
  • PQ7291
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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