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Drug related violence and literature in Mexico

The escalation of violence related to the war on drugs set in motion by the Mexican government and the State failure in controlling such violence, leading society to discredit its institutions, comprise the background for an analysis by the author of the repercussions of that reality on Mexican literary production, emphasizing the emergence of what could be said to be a new literary genre: narco-literature.

Literature and Violence; Narcoliterature; Mexican culture; Mexico


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