The Drift in Drug-Trafficking Displacements in Néstor Ponce’s Toda la ceguera del mundo
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Description: | The inclusion within Néstor Ponce’s Toda la ceguera del mundo (2014) of drug trafficking and its associated chains of command and narcotics trading identifies the work clearly as a narconovela, one of the most popular contemporary noir sub-genres in Latin America. Within the fiction, as crimes and post-mortem mutilations spiral out of control, so, too, do the violent turf wars and reckonings. With Argentina’s early twentieth-century financial crash—the so-called “Corralito”—as the backdrop, Inspector Barrionuevo and his journalist sidekick Rébora must carry out their investigation. New drug trafficking routes, and the expansion of narcotics markets, lead to a parallel growth in drug-related businesses and distribution networks—what I will call a drift in displacements. This drift in drug-related displacements—characterized by impunity, corruption, and vicious revenge—cause immeasurable human disasters that in turn prompt the social tissue to rot and decay. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/63025 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/63025 |
| Keyword: | Néstor Ponce noir fiction drug trafficking violence and bodily mutilation Argentinian literature novela policial narcotráfico violencia y mutilación de cuerpos literatura argentina |