Abstract This study engages Yuri Herrera’s novel Trabajos del reino (2004) to zoom in on the way in which drug lords besiege concrete and symbolic spaces in cities. I argue that drug lord El Rey’s conquering of space closely resembles gentrification due to its operations of spatial displacement, exclusion of marginalized subjects, and substitution of complex realities and intelligibilities for simplistic images to glorify his cartel. The process of gentrification crystallizes when El Rey coopts public space to neutralize the collective right to transform space by erecting a walled castle and monopolizing bars and nightlife to aggrandize his power and image. Furthermore, the novel envisages the gentrification of the library due to fictional narratives about drug cartels supplanting and dislocating previous nonfiction accounts such as biographies and chronicles. Finally, I contend that this novel serves as a kaleidoscope for the reader to recover a lost “right to the city.”

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La narcogentrificación de la ciudad en Trabajos Del Reino (2004)

摘要 本研究利用尤里·埃雷拉 (Yuri Herrera) 的小说 Trabajos del reino (2004) 来放大毒枭围攻城市混凝土和象征空间的方式。我认为毒枭 El Rey 对空间的征服与绅士化非常相似，因为它具有空间位移、排斥边缘化主体以及用复杂的现实和可理解性替代简单的图像来美化他的卡特尔。当 El Rey 选择公共空间，通过建造一座有围墙的城堡和垄断酒吧和夜生活来增强他的权力和形象来抵消改造空间的集体权利时，绅士化的过程就具体化了。此外，由于关于贩毒集团的虚构叙述取代和错位了以前的非虚构作品，如传记和编年史，小说设想了图书馆的高档化。最后，我认为这本小说是读者恢复失去的“城市权利”的万花筒。