"A surprising reading of an extremely important problem that surpasses previous studies of narcoculture and presents us with a broader image of consumer societies, their addictions, and the way narcography configures a psychic architecture of modernity informed by distinct cultu…
"This book... takes as a principle object of study 'narconarratives' like the novels analyzed in the final three chapters; these analyses call for a theorization of intoxication as a cultural phenomenon in the geographical and historical context of a globalized Latin America. T…
This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic sobriety in these works or discounted them altogether as…