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Narco-narratives and Transnational Form: The Geo-Politics of Citation in the Circum-Caribbean
- Author(s):
- Jason Frydman (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- CLCS Caribbean
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Twentieth century, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Caribbean literature, Caribbean Area, Area studies, Popular culture
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- drug wars, Law and Order, narco-narratives, russell banks, telenovelas, 20th-century American literature, 20th-century Latin American culture, Caribbean studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4vfm-8609
- Abstract:
- This essay argues that narco-narratives--in film, television, literature, and music--depend on structures of narrative doubles to map the racialized and spatialized construction of illegality and distribution of death in the circum-Caribbean narco-economy. Narco-narratives stage their own haunting by other geographies, other social classes, other media; these hauntings refract the asymmetries of geo-political and socio-cultural power undergirding both the transnational drug trade and its artistic representation. The circum-Caribbean cartography offers both a corrective to nation- or language-based approaches to narco-culture, as well as a vantage point on the recursive practices of citation that are constitutive of transnational narco-narrative production.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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