The persistence of violence : Colombian popular culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Miller, Toby, 1958- author. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020] |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( v, 222 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12454481 |
| 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.<br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( v, 222 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978817555 197881755X 9781978817531 1978817533 9781978817517 1978817517 |
