"Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture" - A Book Talk by Oswaldo Zavala (CUNY). Hosted by Jorge Téllez

Oswaldo Zavala is Professor of contemporary Latin American literature and culture, and he has a joint appointment the City University of New York (CUNY)'s Graduate Center and College of Staten Island.  His research focuses on post-national imaginaries, representations of violence along the US-Mexico border, and discourses of modernity in 21st century Latin American narrative.  He is the author of Los cárteles no existen. Narcotráfico y cultura en México (Malpaso 2018), Volver a la modernidad. Genealogías de la literatura mexicana de fin de siglo (Albatros 2017) and La modernidad insufrible.  

His book, The Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture (transl. by William Savinar, 2022, Vandelbilt University Press), deconstructs the hegemonic perceptions of the drug trade, unveiling its real power wielders of politicians, corporations, and the military. You can read more about this eye-opening book here, and you can read more about Professor Zavala here.

We are excited to host Professor Zavala as part of our Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies External Speaker (CLALSES) Series. He is hosted by Jorge Téllez, the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS) Director and Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.