{"title":"Oswaldo Zavala","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"guerra-en-las-palabras-una-historia-intelectual-del-en-mexico-1975-2020-war-put-book-oswaldo-zavala-9786073803236","title":"La Guerra en Las Palabras. una Historia Intelectual Del en México (1975 - 2020) \/ War Put into Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eUna historia intelectual de la hegemonía que funcionó como la plataforma para lanzar la \"guerra contra el narco\": primero desde un plano simbólico y después como una campaña permanente de violencia organizada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e El fenómeno del \u003cb\u003enarcotráfico en México\u003c\/b\u003e ha estado siempre determinado por el lenguaje. Durante más de cuatro décadas, el \u003cb\u003esistema político mexicano\u003c\/b\u003e ha logrado imponer la narrativa sobre el \"narco\" que la sociedad en general ha aceptado como la explicación dominante de los altos índices de \u003cb\u003eviolencia en el país\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Basado en una investigación de \u003cb\u003earchivos oficiales\u003c\/b\u003e, reportajes periodísticos, estudios académicos y producciones culturales sobre el \u003cb\u003etráfico de drogas\u003c\/b\u003e, Oswaldo Zavala revisa el arco histórico del lenguaje en el que se inscriben el relato de guerra en nuestra sociedad contemporánea y la ilusión de organizaciones criminales como el enemigo doméstico. Dedica especial atención a las incontables novelas, películas, canciones, estudios académicos y piezas de \u003cb\u003earte conceptua\u003c\/b\u003el que reiteran la misma narrativa que atribuye a los supuestos \"cárteles\" toda la responsabilidad de la \u003cb\u003ecorrupción\u003c\/b\u003e y la \u003cb\u003eviolencia generalizada en México\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIt is an intellectual account of the hegemony that operated as launching pad for \"the war against the cartels\"--first on a symbolic level, and afterwards as an ongoing campaign against organized violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After researching official documents, news reports, academic studies, and cultural productions about drug trafficking, Oswaldo Zavala reviews the story arch of the language in which a war tale is inscribed, with interchangeable characters in variable places that make up the illusion about \u003ci\u003enarco\u003c\/i\u003e in our contemporary society, giving special attention to cultural products about the drug trade in general.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50449789616401,"sku":"GOR013955854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51065413665041,"sku":"NIN9786073803236","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/6073803230.jpg?v=1750999743"},{"product_id":"drug-cartels-do-not-exist-book-oswaldo-zavala-9780826504661","title":"Drug Cartels Do Not Exist","description":"Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border reveal the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed.   Yet, the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like Sicario, The Queen of the South, and Narcos hide Mexico's political realities. Along with these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden, 2666 by Roberto BolaÑo, and other important Latin American writers as examples of works that do capture the realities of the drug war.  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This investigation asserts that Bolano's novels, short stories, poetry and essays examine to a point of exhaustion the most important aspects of Latin America's modern literary tradition. Bolano's critique of modernity as a violent historical condition is a radical mode of literary articulation. With it, the current models of criticism-world literature, the global novel, postcolonial and transatlantic studies-are undermined, while the very notions of margin and center are ultimately disolved. Oswaldo Zavala contends that Bolano deliberately dismantles the symbolic capital of the Western literary tradition by generating a counterhegemonic horizon of meaning that arises from and defines Latin American writing. The book offers innovative readings of Distant Star, By Night in Chile, The Savage Detectives, Last Evenings on Earth and 2666, among other works. 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