LEADER 04978nam 22006615 450 001 9910512308703321 005 20240724124410.0 010 $a9783030689247 010 $a3030689247 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-68924-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6819772 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6819772 035 $a(CKB)19968779900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1287131564 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-68924-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919968779900041 100 $a20211126d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDrugs, Violence and Latin America $eGlobal Psychotropy and Culture /$fby Joseph Patteson 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (253 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Patteson, Joseph Drugs, Violence and Latin America Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030689230 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. A Dialectics of Intoxication -- 3. Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonialist Shadow -- 4. From Flower Power to Les fleurs du mal: la Onda literaria -- 5. High Crimes: Élmer Mendoza's "Zurdo" Mendieta Series and the Psychotropic Economy -- 6. Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence Through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la Madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen -- 7. Escape Velocity: Narcossism, Contagion, and Consumption in Julián Herbert -- 8. Conclusion. 330 $a"A surprising reading of an extremely important problem that surpasses previous studies of narcoculture and presents us with a broader image of consumer societies, their addictions, and the way narcography configures a psychic architecture of modernity informed by distinct cultural products and areas of knowledge." -Sayak Valencia, author of Gore Capitalism [Capitalismo gore] (2010), and research professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico "Joseph Patteson has produced a perceptive cognitive and affective mapping of drugs in contemporary Latin American literature. His groundbreaking approach to the subject of intoxication opens an unexplored comparative route between North and South, cutting across habit forming disciplinary and generic boundaries that insist on keeping psychotropics, aesthetic experimentation, and drug wars apart." -Julio Ramos, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic "sobriety" in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a "dialectics of intoxication" that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. Joseph Patteson (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) is Assistant Professor at Augustana University, USA. He researches narco-violence in Mexico, placed within an interdisciplinary global framework that highlights the interpenetration of cultural production and the problem of psychotropy. His work has appeared in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and A Contracorriente. . 606 $aEthnology$zLatin America 606 $aCulture 606 $aLatin American literature 606 $aDrug abuse 606 $aCriminology 606 $aLatin American Culture 606 $aGlobal and International Culture 606 $aLatin American/Caribbean Literature 606 $aDrugs 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aLatin American literature. 615 0$aDrug abuse. 615 0$aCriminology. 615 14$aLatin American Culture. 615 24$aGlobal and International Culture. 615 24$aLatin American/Caribbean Literature. 615 24$aDrugs. 676 $a363.45098 676 $a364.13365098 700 $aPatteson$b Joseph$01069742 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910512308703321 996 $aDrugs, Violence and Latin America$92556815 997 $aUNINA