03184nam 2200649 450 991082700510332120230803034544.00-8229-7909-8(CKB)3710000000095288(EBL)2039425(OCoLC)862135546(SSID)ssj0001036556(PQKBManifestationID)11556925(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036556(PQKBWorkID)11042207(PQKB)10734974(MiAaPQ)EBC2039425(MdBmJHUP)muse27288(Au-PeEL)EBL2039425(CaPaEBR)ebr10853021(CaONFJC)MIL586622(EXLCZ)99371000000009528820140407h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarrating narcos stories from Culiacán and Medellín /Gabriela Polit DueñasPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2013.©20131 online resource (242 p.)Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.0-8229-6257-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, interviewIlluminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Mexican fictionMexicoCuliacán (Sinaloa)History and criticismDrug traffic in literatureViolence in literatureColombian fictionColombiaMedellínHistory and criticismCuliacán (Sinaloa, Mexico)In literatureMexican fictionHistory and criticism.Drug traffic in literature.Violence in literature.Colombian fictionHistory and criticism.863/.64093556Polit Dueñas Gabriela1682929MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827005103321Narrating narcos4053359UNINA