Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’s Spain (2007) and Narrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas (2000), and co-editor of Market Matters (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies), Teaching the Latin American Boom (2015), and Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia Through Cultural Studies (2017). His articles have appeared in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN, and Hispanic Review. Currently, he is the Editor of Revista de Estudios Colombianos. His research has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, and Fulbright fellowships.

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• Introduction: The Colombian Condition Chapter 1: Narco-Stories Globalized: Pablo Escobar and Excess ConsumptionChapter 2: The Ingrid Betancourt Story: Memory in the Times of Mass MediaChapter 3: The Travelogue Boom: Dark Exoticism for Global ConsumptionChapter 4: Affective Visuality: The Cinema of Conflict and Reconciliation Epilogue: Post-Conflict Colombia?

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’s Spain (2007) and Narrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas (2000), and co-editor of Market Matters (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies), Teaching the Latin American Boom (2015), and Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia Through Cultural Studies (2017). His articles have appeared in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN, and Hispanic Review. Currently, he is the Editor of Revista de Estudios Colombianos. His research has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, and Fulbright fellowships.

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• Introduction: The Colombian Condition Chapter 1: Narco-Stories Globalized: Pablo Escobar and Excess ConsumptionChapter 2: The Ingrid Betancourt Story: Memory in the Times of Mass MediaChapter 3: The Travelogue Boom: Dark Exoticism for Global ConsumptionChapter 4: Affective Visuality: The Cinema of Conflict and Reconciliation Epilogue: Post-Conflict Colombia?