Narrating narcos : stories from Culiacan and Medellin /

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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 force...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Polit Dueñas, Gabriela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
©2013
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
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.
Drogues > Trafic > Colombie > Medellín.
Drogues > Trafic > Mexique > Culiacán (Sinaloa)
Roman colombien > Colombie > Medellín > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la littérature.
Drogues > Trafic, dans la littérature.
Roman mexicain > Mexique > Culiacán (Sinaloa) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Colombian fiction
Drug traffic
Drug traffic in literature
Literature
Mexican fiction
Violence in literature
Medellín (Colombia) > In literature.
Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) > In literature.
Colombia > Medellín
Mexico > Culiacán (Sinaloa)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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