Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

AvOswaldo Zavala

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border reveal the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed.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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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:141 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Mexican Studies
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN:9780826504661
Översättare:Savinar, William

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Oswaldo Zavala is a professor of contemporary Latin American literature and culture with a joint appointment at the College of Staten Island and at The Graduate Center, both institutions part of the City University of New York (CUNY) William Savinar is a writer, translator, and English teacher living in Mexico City.

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"Spend enough time with [Oswaldo Zavala], talk about the drug trade long enough, and, more likely than not, you'll come to realize that most of what you know about it is a myth."—Freddy Martínez, Remezcla

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INTRODUCTION: THE INVENTION OF A FORMIDABLE ENEMYCHAPTER ONE: NARCO CULTURE DEPOLITICIZEDCorpses Without History: Narco Noir Novels and the Myth of the Cartel KingdomNeutralized Chronicles: The Journalistic Imaginary on Drug TraffickingThe Cartel, Narcos, Sicario: National Security Discourse in American Movies and TelevisionCHAPTER 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 NarcoNarrativeThe Recapture of "El Chapo" and the State's Media ConquestA Latecomer to the End of the World: Trump, the US, the "Narco" and the Mexican Energy ReformCHAPTER THREE: FOUR WRITERS SUBVERTING THE NARCONARRATIVECesar López Cuadras and the Precarious Life of the Drug TraffickerDaniel Sada and the Return to the PoliticalRoberto BolaÑo and the Narco's FaceJuan Villoro and the Country Too Faithful to Its Own ImageCHAPTER FOUR: DRUG TRAFFICKING, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE ON THE BORDERImaginary Lines of Power: Politics and Mythology in the Literature on Ciudad JuÁrezJuliÁn Cardona and Charles Bowden, Heretics Preaching in HellWho Controls the Plaza? The City, the State, and Organized CrimeEPILOGUE: THE NEW "CARTEL WAR" IS NOT NEW, NOR A WAR, NOR BETWEEN CARTELSAfterword for the English EditionAcknowledgments

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