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Narrating narcos : stories from Culiacán and Medellín /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Polit Dueñas, Gabriela (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Mexican fiction > Mexico > Culiacán (Sinaloa) > History and criticism.
Drug traffic in literature.
Violence in literature.
Colombian fiction > Colombia > Medellín > History and criticism.
Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) > In literature.
Medellín (Colombia) > In literature.
Drug traffic > Mexico > Culiacán (Sinaloa)
Drug traffic > Colombia > Medellín.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.