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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464618703321

Autore

Polit Dueñas Gabriela

Titolo

Narrating narcos : stories from Culiacán and Medellín / / Gabriela Polit Dueñas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8229-7909-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas

Disciplina

863/.64093556

Soggetti

Mexican fiction - Mexico - Culiacán (Sinaloa) - History and criticism

Drug traffic in literature

Violence in literature

Colombian fiction - Colombia - Medellín - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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