Por una nosología de la violencia del narcotráfico: topos literarios de los años de la peste

Towards a nosolog y of the violence of drug-traffic: literary topos from the years of the plague Abstract This article is an analysis of some of the topos of the violence of drug traffic in Colombia in four contemporary novels, emphasizing on the eighties and nineties, the historical context recreat...

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Published in:La Palabra 2015-07 (27), p.79
Main Author: Cohen, Vanessa Solano
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Colombian literature
Drug trafficking
Historical text analysis
Novels
Semiotics
Violence
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Summary:Towards a nosolog y of the violence of drug-traffic: literary topos from the years of the plague Abstract This article is an analysis of some of the topos of the violence of drug traffic in Colombia in four contemporary novels, emphasizing on the eighties and nineties, the historical context recreated by these texts, which in this paper we will call the "plague years". The objective is to demonstrate, based on a semiotic analysis, that drug traffic, as production system, is a symbol and symptom of absence of State. In order to do this, we describe the "morbid" relation between drug traffic and violence, recreated in the selected literary corpus, in order to characterize narco-violence as an epidemic that irrupts historically in Colombian everyday life. Los atentados perpetrados contra las instalaciones del DAS (policía secreta colombiana), los periódicos El Espectador y Vanguardia Liberal, la Plaza de Toros de la Macarena, el Centro Comercial 93 y el avión de Avianca HK-1803, entre otros, pueden ser leídos como escenificaciones (Reguillo, 2010) del narcotráfico; es decir actos de violencia expresiva, que no sólo enuncian el poder del narcotráfico, sino su capacidad de controlar y disciplinar a la población a partir del terror.
ISSN:0121-8530
2346-3864