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Author Polit Dueñas, Gabriela

Title Narrating narcos : stories from Culiacan and Medellin / Gabriela Polit Duenas
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013
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Series Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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
Drug traffic -- Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa)
Colombian fiction -- Colombia -- Medellín -- History and criticism
Violence in literature.
Drug traffic in literature.
Mexican fiction -- Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa) -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Colombian fiction
Drug traffic
Drug traffic in literature
Literature
Mexican fiction
Violence in literature
SUBJECT Medellín (Colombia) -- In literature
Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) -- In literature
Subject Colombia -- Medellín
Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1306553717
9781306553711
9780822979098
0822979098