El Arquetipo Del Narco Mexicano En La Novela, El Cine, Y La Música. Master of Arts (Spanish), May 2014, 82 Pp., 3 Figures, 27 References, 58 Titles
EL ARQUETIPO DEL NARCO MEXICANO EN LA NOVELA, EL CINE, Y LA MÚSICA Jesús Ángel González, B.A. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2014 APPROVED: Samuel Manickam, Committee Chair Jorge Avilés-Diz, Committee Member Teresa Marrero, Committee Member Carol Anne Constabile-Heming, Chair of the Department of World Languages and Literatures and Cultures Mark Wardell, Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School González, Jesús Ángel. El arquetipo del narco mexicano en la novela, el cine, y la música. Master of Arts (Spanish), May 2014, 82 pp., 3 figures, 27 references, 58 titles. Various groups of Mexican culture have assigned to el narco archetypical characteristics of a heroic figure in the literary, visual, and auditory arts. As a result, today’s narcocultura has expanded its tentacles to a vast array of prominent industries, such as publishing companies, the silver screen, and recording studios. El narco is no longer seen by some sectors as the outlaw that stalks our society but, instead, as a hero who fights against a hegemonic faction to reclaim his sovereignty. This thesis unites interdisciplinary observations of the narco phenomena that Mexican culture has assigned to the iconic figure of el narco. The purpose of this work is to recreate the evolutionary development through a theoretical-literary analysis of this prototype in order to better understand Mexican society’s stance on this phenomenon. Octavio Paz’s theory of the Mexican psyche, Joseph Campbell’s theory of the hero’s journey, and an interdisciplinary focus will be employed to analyze this iconic figure.
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