Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm
Reihe: Critical Mexican Studies
Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm
Reihe: Critical Mexican Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0467-8
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Yet, the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like Sicario, The Queen of the South, and Narcos hide Mexico's political realities. Along with these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden, 2666 by Roberto BolaÑo, and other important Latin American writers as examples of works that do capture the realities of the drug war.
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist will be useful for journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and writers of any kind who wish to break down the constructed barriers—physical and mental—created by those in power around the reality of the Mexican drug trade.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- INTRODUCTION: THE INVENTION OF A FORMIDABLE ENEMY
- CHAPTER ONE: NARCO CULTURE DEPOLITICIZED
- Corpses Without History: Narco Noir Novels and the Myth of the Cartel Kingdom
- Neutralized Chronicles: The Journalistic Imaginary on Drug Trafficking
The Cartel, Narcos, Sicario: National Security Discourse in American Movies and Television
- CHAPTER TWO: THE CARTELS DON’T EXIST (BUT STATE VIOLENCE DOES)
- The Drug War and Its Raisons d’État: Sovereignty and Biopolitics in the Contemporary Mexican NarcoNarrative
- The Recapture of "El Chapo" and the State's Media Conquest
- A Latecomer to the End of the World: Trump, the US, the "Narco" and the Mexican Energy Reform
- CHAPTER THREE: FOUR WRITERS SUBVERTING THE NARCONARRATIVE
- Cesar Lo´pez Cuadras and the Precarious Life of the Drug Trafficker
- Daniel Sada and the Return to the Political
- Roberto BolaÑo and the Narco's Face
- Juan Villoro and the Country Too Faithful to Its Own Image
- CHAPTER FOUR: DRUG TRAFFICKING, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE ON THE BORDER
- Imaginary Lines of Power: Politics and Mythology in the Literature on Ciudad JuÁrez
- JuliÁn Cardona and Charles Bowden, Heretics Preaching in Hell
- Who Controls the Plaza? The City, the State, and Organized Crime
- EPILOGUE: THE NEW "CARTEL WAR" IS NOT NEW, NOR A WAR, NOR BETWEEN CARTELS
- Afterword for the English Edition
- Acknowledgments