Of wild dogs and lap dogs: to read a thriller on drug dealing violence
Abstract
This paper links two theoretical approaches, which allow an analysisof narrative fiction as an historical and socially specific structure. Fiction activates imagination and therefore is a model for the application of heterogeneities. Nevertheless, this transgression of normality and the save return to it in the act of reading is precisely a mechanism that produces “normal subjects”. On the basis of reflexive theory, the second part of this paper analyses Orfa Alarcon’s Perra brava, a thriller that stages multiple transgressions of normality by representing the typical violence of Mexican organized crime.Downloads
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