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SOLANO COHEN, Vanessa. Towards a nosology of the violence of drug-traffic: literary topos from the years of the plague. La Palabra [online]. 2015, n.27, pp.79-92. ISSN 0121-8530.

This article is an analysis of some of the topos of the violence of drug traffic in Colombia in four contemporary novels, emphasizing on the eighties and nineties, the historical context recreated by these texts, which in this paper we will call the "plague years". The objective is to demonstrate, based on a semiotic analysis, that drug traffic, as production system, is a symbol and symptom of absence of State. In order to do this, we describe the "morbid" relation between drug traffic and violence, recreated in the selected literary corpus, in order to characterize narco-violence as an epidemic that irrupts historically in Colombian everyday life.

Palabras clave : narco-violence; epidemic; absence of State; Colombian literature; semiology.

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