Aldona Pobutsky

Aldona Pobutsky
Professor of Latin American Studies

356 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2069
[email protected]

AREAS OF INTEREST: Drug Trafficking Studies, Gender, Representations of Violence and Power, Popular Culture, Telenovela, Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel, Colombia, Mexico, South America.

BOOK: Pablo Escobar and Narco Culture, UP of Florida, 2020.

ARTICLES:

Drug trafficking studies:

“Mejor que la coca: Pablo Escobar en el mercado global.” Narcotransmisiones. Estudios de literatura y narcotráfico. Colegio de Chihuaha (COLECH) y Universidad de los Andes, 2021.

“In Bed with a Narco: Pablo Escobar and Wílber Varela Through the Lens of ‘Trophy Women.’” Hispanófilanbsp;180 (2017): 155-171.

“¿Qué destino le espera a Pablo Escobar? Un viaje posmoderno por la historia del Capo.” Letras Hispanas 13 (2017): 51-65.

“Going Down Narco Memory Lane: Pablo Escobar in the Visual Media.” Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies. Ed. Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Chloe Rutter-Jensen and Andrea Fanta. Rochester UP, 2017. 282-293.

“Prólogo” to El narcotráfico en la novela colombiana by Oscar Osorio. Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia: Colección Libros de Investigación, 2014. 13-17.

“Narco Caudillos and Pablo Escobar in José Libardo Porras’sHappy Birthday, Capo. Revista Canadiense de los Estudios Hispánicos 38.1 (2013): 167- 192.

“Peddling Pablo: Escobar’s Cultural Renaissance.” Hispania 96.4 (2013): 684-99.

“Deleitar denunciando: La narco telenovela de Gustavo Bolívar Sin tetas no hay paraíso marca el pulso de la sociedad colombiana.” Espéculo 46 (2011): on-line.

“María llena eres de gracia: Fairy Tale, Drug Culture, and the American Dream.” Hispanófila 160 (2010): 27-41.

“Romantizando al verdugo: Las novelas sicarescas Rosario Tijeras y La Virgen de los sicarios.” Revista Iberoamericana 232-233 (2010): 567-582.

“Pérez-Reverte’ s La reina del sur or Female Aggression in Narcocultura.” Hispanic Journal 30.1-2 (2009): 273-284.

“Towards the Latin American Action Heroine: The Case of Jorge Franco Ramos’ s Rosario Tijeras.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 24 (2005): 17-35.

Other Topics:

“Víctor Gaviria’s Mujer del animal and the Banality of Violence against Women.” Studies in Popular Latin American Culture 39 (2021): 104-119.

“Airing Dirty Laundry through a Real-Crime Account: Cazals, Ibargüengoitia and the Infamous Poquianchis Scandal.”  Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 24 (2021): 27-45.

“Discourses of Othering: Mariano Melgarejo, the Bolivian Beast.” Alter/nativas: Revista de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos 9 (2018/2019).

“Sex and the Two Cartagenas in Oscar Collazos’s Rencor.” The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature. Essays on Iconic Characters. Ed. Eva Paulino Bueno and María Claudia André. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2012. 146-161.

“Borderlands and the Crisis of Mexican Identity: Reading the Short Narratives of Eduardo Antonio Parra.” Revista Canadiense de los Estudios Hispánicos 33.3 (2009): 469-489.

“The Thrill of the Kill: Pushing the Boundaries of Experience in the Prose of Eduardo Antonio Parra.” Ciberletras (July 2007): on-line.

“Cultural Alienation and Colonial Desire in “Alienación” by Julio Ramón Ribeyro.” Romance Notes 67.2 (2007): 153-163.

“Carnivalizing Communist Cuba: Sex and Excess in Zoé Valdés’ s Te di la vida entera.” Hispanic Journal 27 (2006): 134-147.

“Subversive Masquerades: Performing Gender and Age in Alina Diaconú’ s Cama de ángeles.” Confluencia 21.2 (2006): 11-23.

“¡A festejar! Fiestas mórbidas en algunos cuentos de Silvina Ocampo.” Texto Crítico 8.16 (2005): 79-97.

“Postmodern Cityscape: Living in ‘the Zone’ in Alina Diaconú’s Cama de ángeles.” Chasqui 33.2 (2004): 3-16.

“Argentine No-Man’s Land in Alina Diaconú’s Cama de ángeles.” Thirteenth Annual Conference of Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: Colorado State University, 2003. 123-128.

“Modern Martyrs: The Crumbling Weltanschauung of Elena Garro’ s Inés.” Letras Femeninas 19. 1. (2003): 160-174.

“From the Bottom of My Pain: Living Dangerously in El aire tan dulce of Elvira Orphée.” Letras Femeninas 18.2 (2002): 137-157.

“Who Speaks in a Silent Movie?: Constructing Feminine Subjectivity in Elena Poniatowska's Tinísima.” Torre de Papel 12.1-2 (2002): 82-104.