Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas |
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Contents |
Introduction -- The places -- The book in three Culichi novels -- The author, the crime, the idiot, and the language of the narcos -- Dealing with everyday violence: the journalist and the painter -- The epics of two highlanders: Castulo Bojorquez and Ramon Guerrero -- The problematic emergence of sicarios in Colombia -- Love and letters in the times of narcos -- Gender and genre in Hector Abad Faciolince's Angosta -- Playing with stereotypes -- Epilogue |
Summary |
Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Dueñas juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiacán, Mexico, and Medellín, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence, corruption, and avarice and their influence over locally based cultural texts. Polit Dueñas provides a theoretical basis for her methods, citing the work of Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, and other cultural analysts. She supplements this with extensive ethnographic fieldwork, interview |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Drug traffic -- Colombia -- Medellín
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Drug traffic -- Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa)
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Colombian fiction -- Colombia -- Medellín -- History and criticism
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Violence in literature.
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Drug traffic in literature.
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Mexican fiction -- Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa) -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Colombian fiction
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Drug traffic
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Drug traffic in literature
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Literature
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Mexican fiction
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Violence in literature
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SUBJECT |
Medellín (Colombia) -- In literature
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Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) -- In literature
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Subject |
Colombia -- Medellín
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Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa)
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1306553717 |
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9781306553711 |
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9780822979098 |
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0822979098 |
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