| The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture Contributor(s): Miller, Toby (Author), Sabbagh Fajardo, Alfredo (Contribution by), Lucia Sorzano, Olga (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1978817525 ISBN-13: 9781978817524 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - History | Latin America - South America - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.27 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Garc a M rquez 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. |
