Patteson, Joseph  1964-  <br/><br/>
Drugs, Violence and Latin America :  Global Psychotropy and Culture /  
Joseph Patteson 
 - Switzerland :   Springer International Publishing AG,  2021 
 - 249 pages ;  22 cm  
<br/><br/><br/>1. Introduction.- 2. A Dialectics of Intoxication.- 3. Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonialist Shadow.- 4. From Flower Power to Les fleurs du mal: la Onda literaria.- 5. High Crimes: Élmer Mendoza’s “Zurdo” Mendieta Series and the Psychotropic Economy.- 6. Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence Through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la Madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen.- 7. Escape Velocity: Narcossism, Contagion, and Consumption in Julián Herbert.- 8. Conclusion. 
<br/><br/> A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictionsof thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783030689230 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label> / P319d 2021