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

• Autore: Polit Dueñas Gabriela
• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 863/.64093556
• Soggetto topico: Mexican fiction - Mexico - Culiacán (Sinaloa) - History and criticism; Drug traffic in literature; Violence in literature; Colombian fiction - Colombia - Medellín - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) In literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Narrating narcos
• ISBN: 0-8229-7909-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827005103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)