Narcoepics

Hermann Herlinghaus is Professor of Latin American Literatures in the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and International Adjunct Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author or editor of a dozen books in English, Spanisch, and German including Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South (2009) and Renarración y Descentramiento: Mapas Alternativos de la Imaginación en América Latina (2004).

• Introduction1. Aesthetics of Sobriety: Approximating Narratives from the Hemispheric South2. Genealogical Origins of the Narco-Novel: Nefarious Territories Beyond Confession3. A Hundred Plateaus: Wandering Delinquents Exposed to Globalization4. Big Criminals and Scapegoats: Pablo Escobar and the Titans of Delirium 5. Female Outcasts Unbound: "Queens of the South" Far from Modernity 6. Hemispheric Counter-Almanacs: A No-Man's Land of IntrospectionBibliographyIndex

An erudite archaeology of intoxication, Narcoepics uncovers the political unconscious at work in the War on Drugs and the Western disavowal of the human need for ecstasy. Through close reading of cultural narratives, Herlinghaus dramatizes the effects of the transnational narcotics trade on the body politic of the Global South.