Narrating narcos
Subtitle: Culiacán and Medellín
By: Gabriela Polit Dueñas
Series: Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas; Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780822962571
Subjects: Drug traffic; In literature; Drug traffic in literature; Violence in literature; Mexican fiction; History and criticism; Colombian fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The places; title: The book in three Culichi novels; title: The author, the crime, the idiot, and the language of the narcos; title: Dealing with everyday violence: the journalist and the painter; title: The epics of two highlanders: Castulo Bojorquez and Ramon Guerrero; title: The problematic emergence of sicarios in Colombia; title: Love and letters in the times of narcos; title: Gender and genre in Hector Abad Faciolince's Angosta; title: Playing with stereotypes; title: Epilogue.