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Book cover Relatos de Cocalombia

Relatos de Cocalombia

El paradigma narco en la narrativa colombiana

Pages: 266 Book format: 15,8 x 23,5 cm Publication date: 2025

Book description

Relatos de Cocalombia is much more than a literary analysis. This essential work explores how the Colombian narco-novel reflects the influence of drug trafficking and violence on society, capturing the complex reality of a country marked by organised crime. 

Ideal for those seeking to understand literature as a social reflection, Relatos de Cocalombia shows how the narco narrative has created a unique aesthetic in the Colombian canon, addressing themes of marginality, failed utopias, moral ambiguity surrounding drug trafficking, and complex ethical controversies.  
Moreover, Relatos de Cocalombia goes beyond Colombia, exploring the narco phenomenon throughout Latin America. This book is essential for those who wish to understand the deep links between culture, economics and violence in the region, and how literature becomes a powerful tool for historical memory and collective therapy.

About Author

Adriana Sara Jastrzębska – Hispanist, Colombianist, and translator with a PhD in Humanities from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. From 2007 to 2020, she served as Associate Professor and Director of the Hispanic Studies Chair at the University of Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Since 2020, she has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.She has translated both fiction and academic works from Spanish and Catalan and is a recognized expert in narratology and contemporary Spanish-American literature, with a focus on Colombia, Central America, and Mexico. She is the author of several monographs and around 50 scholarly articles on recent Colombian and Central American narrative, the noir novel, and the “narconovela,” published in both European and American journals and collections.
Her editorial work includes co-editing collective volumes such as Identidad en movimiento: fronteras, migraciones y diálogo intercultural en el mundo hispánico (2014), La espiritualidad de América Latina (2018), and Estudios interdisciplinarios de género: Critical Approaches (2019), as well as thematic issues in the journals Między Oryginałem a Przekładem and Studia Iberica.
Language Spanish
Title in English Cocalombia Tales. The Narco Paradigm in Contemporary Colombian Fiction
Edition first
Cover design Sebastian Wojnowski
ISBN: 978-83-233-5509-0
e-ISBN (pdf): 978-83-233-7677-4
e-ISBN (mobi,epub): 978-83-233-7678-1
Country of producer: Poland

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