Research Catalog

Title

Narrating narcos : stories from Culiacán and Medellín / Gabriela Polit Dueñas.

Author

Polit Dueñas, Gabriela,

Publication

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

xiii, 224 pages :; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas

Uniform Title

• Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Colombian fiction > Medellín > History and criticism
• Culiacán (Sinaloa, Mexico) > In literature
• Drug traffic > Culiacán (Sinaloa)
• Drug traffic > Medellín
• Drug traffic in literature
• Medellín (Colombia) > In literature
• Mexican fiction > Culiacán (Sinaloa) > History and criticism
• Violence in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780822962571 (pbk.)
• 0822962578 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013023783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library