NO202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Stratification, Border Ballad, Narcocorrido

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No country for old men produces an internal corridor or border ballad in the wake of the. Bell"s ability to comprehend/explain is outstripped by the events, crisis of identity, faith, and vacation. Flows of things across geopolitical borders made bell both at home at unhomely chigurh is alien/peculiar. Bell is haunted by a spectral figure (chigurh) Binary of motion and stasis: spaces of places and spaces of flows. Place becomes a violence place with people from elsewhere. Bell"s gringo corrido centres on recovering the repressed content of history and learning how to mourn properly. The corrido was developed on the us-mexico border. Celebrates the sub-alternate/folk hero"s resistance to authority figures, communication values opposing the nexus of property and economic exchange associated with anglo culture. Narcocorrido: centred on exploits of drug traffickers, emerged in the 1970s. Themes corrido- death by betrayal narcocorrido- corruption, deceit, hypocrisy. Mexico is a hard place to make good money legitimately, can make more money if corrupt.

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