The Persistence of Violence : Colombian Popular Culture

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Toby, author.

Contributor:

Sabbagh Fajardo, Alfredo, contribution by.

Lucia Sorzano, Olga, contribution by.

Tamayo Duque, Anamaria, contribution by.

Milena Barrios, Marta, contribution by.

Arroyave Cabrera, Jesús, contribution by.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.) ill

Other Title:

Persistence of Violence

Place of Publication:

Rutgers University Press

Summary:

Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred--products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one--the ideal and the real--summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa" (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence--and resistance to it--characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment.

ISBN:

9781978817531

1978817533