1st Edition

Narrative Complicity in Stories of Violence from Latin America

By Mark Piccini Copyright 2026
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores why stories of Latin American violence are commonplace. These stories are often set in exotic locations and feature cartel hitmen and carbon copies of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, ragtag guerrillas, and bloodthirsty dictators. This book examines how Latin American violence has become a genre catering to Northern audiences’ appetite for images of either a violent Latin... Read more

            Introduction: Narrative Complicity                                                                           

1          The Jouissance of the Violent Other                                                                         

2          The Part about the Global North                                                                               

3          The Subject Between Death Tolls and Testimony                                                    

4          The Paroxysm That Makes Us Identical                                                                   

5          The Global South as an Exhibition of Pain                                                               

            Conclusion: Be Grateful you Left     

Biography

Mark Piccini is an independent scholar. He completed his PhD in 2016 at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. His specialist areas of interest include Latin American literature, Australian literature, representations of violence in the Global South, critical criminology, and psychoanalytic cultural theory.