TY - BOOK AU - Patteson,Joseph TI - Drugs, Violence and Latin America: Global Psychotropy and Culture / SN - 9783030689230 PY - 2021/// CY - Switzerland : PB - Springer International Publishing AG N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -