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The persistence of violence : Colombian popular culture / Toby Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Toby, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Columbia.
- Violence.
- Popular culture--Columbia.
- Popular culture.
- Colombia--Civilization--21st century.
- Colombia.
- Colombia--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION. The Persistence of Violence
- 1. THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF STATE MILITARISM
- 2. INDUSTRY POLICY AND SEX TOURISM MEET THE CASE OF THE DESTROYED PLAQUE
- 3. “I MYSELF HAD TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN THEY THREATENED MY CHILDREN”
- 4. GREEN PASSION AFLOAT
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-1755-X
- OCLC:
- 1155943075
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