Narco-trafficking and Camba Identity in Homero Carvalho Oliva’s La conspiración de los viejos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7263548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis L Jackson (0000-0003-3065-8199, Kennesaw State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pages | 185-206 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bolivian Studies Journal/Revista de Estudios Bolivianos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-2247 • E-ISSN: 2156-5163 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/bsj.2022.213 |
| OpenAlex | W4311184257 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article examines the novel’s use of the camba identity and the vestiges of narco-violence, embodied by a contract killer and the memory of a local drug baron, Roberto Suárez Gómez, to critique both the contemporary political tensions arising between the eastern departments of Bolivia and the MAS administration, as well as the lack of collective dialogue regarding the region’s involvement in the history of the Bolivian drug trade
Aesthetics · Collective identity · Criminology · Drug trafficking · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnology · Humanities · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |