...Oswaldo Zavala In the last decade, violence attributed to Latin American drug cartels has become a common theme in a proliferation of fiction and non-fiction about the drug trade written both in Mexico and the U.S. This essay shows how the majority of Mexican narconarratives—in particular the works...

... of Narconarratives.” Comparative Literature 66 . 3 ( 2014 ): 340 – 60 . Print . SAMUEL STEINBERG Latin American Literature in the Age of Global War N A WORLD besieged by the question of what role literature might play (hav- Iing become a nostalgic luxury) and the insidious...