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Direct linkPalaversich, Diana – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2006
This essay traces the emergence of the Mexican and Mexico-related narconovela. It examines perspectives on drug trafficking and traffickers expressed in novels by Elmer Mendoza, Leonides Alfaro, Gerardo Cornejo, Homero Aridjis, Arturo Perez-Reverte, and Paul Flores. The variety of positions taken refutes the tendency of the Mexican mainstream…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Novels, Mexicans, Crime
