Dimensión mítica y ritual en las representaciones literarias del narco
Mythical and Ritual Dimension of Literary Representations of Drug Trafficking

Summary/Abstract: Narco-fiction, very popular in the recent Mexican and Colombian literature, emphasizes one of the determinants of narco-culture: a deep rootedness in the primitive mentality and mythical thinking. Such roots translate into a particular religiosity, the cult of legendary narcos. The same mentality has driven the creation of a culture based on a ritual. The article analyzes examples of these phenomena, on the basis of selected texts of Colombian and Mexican narco-fiction writers with the aim of showing that mythical thinking remains relevant in the postmodern and post-political reality.

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