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Narrating narcos

Polit Dueñas, Gabriela.

Narrating narcos stories from Culiacan and Medellin / [electronic resource] : Gabriela Polit Duenas. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas .

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.

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Drug traffic--Colombia--Medellín.
Drug traffic--Mexico--Culiacán (Sinaloa)
Colombian fiction--History and criticism.--Colombia--Medellín
Violence in literature.
Drug traffic in literature.
Mexican fiction--History and criticism.--Mexico--Culiacán (Sinaloa)


Medellín (Colombia)--In literature.
Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico)--In literature.


Electronic books.

PQ7291.C85 / P65 2013

863/.64093556