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Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín (Pitt Illuminations)
Gabriela Polit Duena
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Due\u00f1as juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiac\u00e1n, Mexico, and Medell\u00edn, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence, corruption, and avarice and their influence over locally based cultural texts.
Polit Due\u00f1as 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, interviewing artists and writers, their confidants, relatives, and others, and documents their responses to the portrayal of narco ... Read more
Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Due\u00f1as juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiac\u00e1n, Mexico, and Medell\u00edn, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence, corruption, and avarice and their influence over locally based cultural texts.
Polit Due\u00f1as 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, interviewing artists and writers, their confidants, relatives, and others, and documents their responses to the portrayal of narco ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822962571
SKU
V9780822962571
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About Gabriela Polit Duena
Gabriela Polit Dueñas is associate professor of contemporary Latin American culture and literature in the Department Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin.
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