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As Polit Duenas posits, the phenomenon of narco trafficking expresses an overwhelming challenge of representation. In this sense the author has successfully met the challenge head on. The text brings a fresh interdisciplinary mix of archival work and ethnographic involvement that fruitfully explores the conundrums of Latin American narco culture. As such it is a genuine contribution for understanding the troubled historical narco legacies of our time. --Oswaldo Benavides, Fordham University Narrating Narcos succeeds admirably in explaining the origins of the 'narco novels, ' as well as in offering trenchant close readings of works by Elmer Mendoza, Fernando Vallejo, and Hector Abad Faciolince, and placing these fictions in a broader cultural and artistic context that includes painting, music, and film. It's a must-read book about an urgently important phenomenon. --Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Yale University Narrating Narcos is devoted to exploring writers and artists as social actors and people trying to make representational and ethical sense out od the onslaught of pain and bloodshed that accompanies trafficking and state violence. --Journal of Latin American Studies Polit's work is an important contribution to our understanding of narcotrafficking in the Americas. It is well argued and elegantly put together, an excellent piece of pedagogical material for teaching about the cultural economies of illegality in Latin America, and it will be useful to a wide range of scholars, from historians to literary critics and from sociologists to anthropologists. Her comparative method deserves special praise, since it invites readers to think outside the box of confining national discourses. --Hispanic American Historical Review Narrating Narcos succeeds admirably in explaining the origins of the narco novels, as well as in offering trenchant close readings of works by Elmer Mendoza, Fernando Vallejo, and Hector Abad Faciolince, and placing these fictions in a broader cultural and artistic context that includes painting, music, and film. It s a must-read book about an urgently important phenomenon. Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Yale University Narrating Narcos is devoted to exploring writers and artists as social actors and people trying to make representational and ethical sense out od the onslaught of pain and bloodshed that accompanies trafficking and state violence. Journal of Latin American Studies Polit s work is an important contribution to our understanding of narcotrafficking in the Americas. It is well argued and elegantly put together, an excellent piece of pedagogical material for teaching about the cultural economies of illegality in Latin America, and it will be useful to a wide range of scholars, from historians to literary critics and from sociologists to anthropologists. Her comparative method deserves special praise, since it invites readers to think outside the box of confining national discourses. Hispanic American Historical Review As Polit Duenas posits, the phenomenon of narco trafficking expresses an overwhelming challenge of representation. In this sense the author has successfully met the challenge head on. The text brings a fresh interdisciplinary mix of archival work and ethnographic involvement that fruitfully explores the conundrums of Latin American narco culture. As such it is a genuine contribution for understanding the troubled historical narco legacies of our time. Oswaldo Benavides, Fordham University Narrating Narcos succeeds admirably in explaining the origins of the narco novels, as well as in offering trenchant close readings of works by Elmer Mendoza, Fernando Vallejo, and Hector Abad Faciolince, and placing these fictions in a broader cultural and artistic context that includes painting, music, and film. It s a must-read book about an urgently important phenomenon. Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Yale University As Polit DueNas posits, the phenomenon of narco trafficking expresses an overwhelming challenge of representation. In this sense the author has successfully met the challenge head on. The text brings a fresh interdisciplinary mix of archival work and ethnographic involvement that fruitfully explores the conundrums of Latin American narco culture. As such it is a genuine contribution for understanding the troubled historical narco legacies of our time. --Oswaldo Benavides, Fordham University Narrating Narcos succeeds admirably in explaining the origins of the 'narco novels, ' as well as in offering trenchant close readings of works by Elmer Mendoza, Fernando Vallejo, and HEctor Abad Faciolince, and placing these fictions in a broader cultural and artistic context that includes painting, music, and film. It's a must-read book about an urgently important phenomenon. --AnIbal GonzAlez-PErez, Yale University Narrating Narcos is devoted to exploring writers and artists as social actors and people trying to make representational and ethical sense out od the onslaught of pain and bloodshed that accompanies trafficking and state violence. --Journal of Latin American Studies As Polit Duenas posits, the phenomenon of narco trafficking expresses an overwhelming challenge of representation. In this sense the author has successfully met the challenge head on. The text brings a fresh interdisciplinary mix of archival work and ethnographic involvement that fruitfully explores the conundrums of Latin American narco culture. As such it is a genuine contribution for understanding the troubled historical narco legacies of our time. --Oswaldo Benavides, Fordham University Narrating Narcos succeeds admirably in explaining the origins of the 'narconovels, ' as well as in offering trenchant close readings of works by Elmer Mendoza, Fernando Vallejo, and Hector Abad Faciolince, and placing these fictions in a broader cultural and artistic context that includes painting, music, and film. It's a must-read book about an urgently important phenomenon. --Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Yale University

As Polit Duenas posits, the phenomenon of narco trafficking expresses an overwhelming challenge of representation. In this sense the author has successfully met the challenge head on. The text brings a fresh interdisciplinary mix of archival work and ethnographic involvement that fruitfully explores the conundrums of Latin American narco culture. As such it is a genuine contribution for understanding the troubled historical narco legacies of our time. --Oswaldo Benavides, Fordham University

<p> As Polit Duenas posits, the phenomenon of narco-trafficking expresses an overwhelming challenge of representation. In this sense the author has successfully met the challenge head on. The text brings a fresh interdisciplinary mix of archival work and ethnographic involvement that fruitfully explores the conundrums of Latin American narco-culture. As such it is a genuine contribution for understanding the troubled historical narco legacies of our time. <br>--Oswaldo Benavides, Fordham University

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Gabriela Polit Dueñas is associate professor of contemporary Latin American culture and literature in the Department Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin.

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