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Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety
Professor Hermann Herlinghaus
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Narcoepics Unbound foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics.' Dealing with literary works and films whose characteristics are linked to illicit global exchange, informal labor, violence, 'bare life,' drug consumption, and ritualistic patterns of identity, it argues for a new theoretical approach to better understand these 'narratives of intoxication.' Foregrounding the art that has arisen from or seeks to describe drug culture, Herlinghaus' comparative study looks at writers such as Gutiérrez, J. J. Rodríguez, Reverte, films such as City of God, and the narratives surrounding cultural villains/heroes such as Pablo Escobar. Narcoepics shows ... Read more
Narcoepics Unbound foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics.' Dealing with literary works and films whose characteristics are linked to illicit global exchange, informal labor, violence, 'bare life,' drug consumption, and ritualistic patterns of identity, it argues for a new theoretical approach to better understand these 'narratives of intoxication.' Foregrounding the art that has arisen from or seeks to describe drug culture, Herlinghaus' comparative study looks at writers such as Gutiérrez, J. J. Rodríguez, Reverte, films such as City of God, and the narratives surrounding cultural villains/heroes such as Pablo Escobar. Narcoepics shows ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441107787
SKU
V9781441107787
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About Professor Hermann Herlinghaus
Hermann Herlinghaus is Professor of Latin American Literatures in the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and International Adjunct Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author or editor of a dozen books in English, Spanisch, and German including Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives ... Read more
Reviews for Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety
An erudite archaeology of intoxication, Narcoepics uncovers the political unconscious at work in the War on Drugs and the Western disavowal of the human need for ecstasy. Through close reading of cultural narratives, Herlinghaus dramatizes the effects of the transnational narcotics trade on the body politic of the Global South.
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