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Summary Of La Adjetivacion De La Viencia Del Narco

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In the article “La Adjetivación de la Violencia del Narcotráfico en la Cultura de México: Religión, Arquitectura, Música y Literatura,” María Eugenia de la O Martínez discusses the transformation of message in corridos by conducting a textual analysis. The author writes its research by treating narcocorridos as the modern form of the traditional folk ballad, or corrido, currently often associated with Mexican drug culture. The author uses books and songs, narcocorridos to understand the cultural meaning of violence, fear, and pain in Mexico, as well as the social circumstances that legitimized the narco-trafficking. De La O Martínez analyses the topic through three thematic lenses: architecture, music, and literature. Due to the topic of my …show more content…

She claims that the people from these culture who are stigmatized as “dangerous” or “gangsters,” are some of the most marginalized communities. With this, the author demonstrates that narcocorridos are the illusion where the low-income have right to the corrupted opportunities of the high income by looking at different authors such as Carlos Monsivaís and Valenzuela. Thus, narcocorridos portray drug traffickers as heroes who follow the rules of the drug world, and overcome the obstacles of violence, persecution, murder, meeting their destination: Death. However, despite the violence, these songs still hold on to rural values and honor the land, family, and demonstrate nostalgia of a poor childhood. Therefore, the author also analyses the words used between the relationship of singer and fan, “maziso” and “enfermos.” She notes that these vocabulary encourages feeling of revelation against social norms. Furthermore, the exaggerated fashion used in this genre, is the result of a combination between rural fashion and rural assumptions of high-class fashion. De La O Martínez connects that by associating these values and stories to current drug lords such as El Chapo Guzmán, Chino Antrax, El Mayo, they take the role of the heroes and “the voice of the people.” The author concludes that this genre is the result of a community that is trying to keep their morals and own verion of rules in a violent and corrupted state that allowed many generations to fall into poverty without a future in which to

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One of the area of conflict that rose in the book involves the usage of the English language in relation of the family’s native language, Spanish. As a Mexican-American raised in the States the exhibition of the English language, whether the use of the tongue is fluent or not, cause a strain in the Mexican culture as the culture takes in consideration of their romance and richness of history in their native tongue (Rothman 204). Language represent the supporting backbone of a person as the progress in life as the ability to communicate without misunderstands, however a person can cause the loss connection to the past romance of the culture and art of cultivation that brings the language to lifes from their inabilities to comprehend the ability/asset to its fullest potential (Rothman 204). To fully understand the true meaning behind a spoken chain of words can be understood by the method of trying to first comprehend the cultivation of the word and the definition behind them. Cisneros embeds the use of Spanish in fragments depicting a sense of reality within a fictional novel, Caramelo, as well with the use of interchangeable dialogues with spanish phrase to express the illustration of Celaya’s family and the culture in which is translate in of importance of pride.

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