Lugo Vélez, Mónica E.

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    La narcoliteratura produce monstruos: Estudio sobre la monstrificación en la figura de la mujer y el niño en las narconovelas Perra Brava de Orfa Alarcón y Fiesta en la madriguera de Juan Pablo Villalobos
    (2013) Lugo Vélez, Mónica E.; Carrero Peña, Amarilis; College of Arts and Sciences - Art; Acosta Lugo, Maribel; Maldonado Cardenales, Noemí; Department of Hispanic Studies; Zapata Medina, Rocío
    The beginning of “narcoliteratura” emerged thanks to Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria who served as an initiating figure; however, at present, Mexico has the leading literary production of “narco” literature. Nowadays Mexico is where drug trafficking transcends and has become, for some, a lifestyle that identifies and provides a cultural hegemony to part of the country. Because of this boom, the literary world will allude to it as a reflection of society. This is the case of novels like Perra Brava (2010) by Orfa Alarcón and Fiesta en la madriguera (2011) by Juan Pablo Villalobos, since these texts portray the effect of drug trafficking on society and the distortion of reality that creates on the people who are part of the organization. In the “narconovelas” investigated in this study, drug trafficking is not a mere stage used to present a drama, but it represents a constant threat environment because it creates monstrous characters’ reactions. In order to arrive to this conclusion, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the transformation of the views and attitudes experienced by a woman figure (Fernanda) and child (Tochtli) in Perra Brava and Fiesta en la madriguera, and how they metamorphosed because of it. All of these will be studied in the light of the concept of the “monster” that the French postmodernist critic Michel Foucault proposes in Los anormales (1975).